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“Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style” —Adam Haslett, Financial Times
“A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language.” —Slate
In this entertaining and erudite gem, world-class professor and New York Times columnist
...A friendly, practical guide for writers, students, business executives, bloggers, web developers, and anyone else who wants to write well. Editing Made Easy is based on the author's earlier best-selling book first published in his native Australia, which has become a standard resource for writers and journalists. This edition is revised and expanded to accommodate the rules and spellings common in U.S. English.
Masters of language can turn unassuming words into phrases that are beautiful, effective, and memorable. What are the secrets of this alchemy? Part of the answer lies in rhetorical figures: practical ways of applying great aesthetic principles—repetition and variety, suspense and relief, concealment and surprise—to a simple sentence or paragraph. Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric recovers this knowledge for our times. It amounts
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