UPC: 9780195078374 | Substance Style and Strategy (Paperback)

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Ideal for courses in advanced composition Substance Style and Strategy offers a comprehensive guide to develop effective writing in every student. It enables students to form a personal style to write about issues that are substantial and meaningful and to use a range of strategies for solving writing problems of all kinds. Recognizing that students often require basic reminders of elementary stylistic principles the book begins with a review in the first chapter Developing a Personal Style that brings writers up to speed in standard skills. It discusses issues of subject audience style and the writing process. Following chapters examine not only the types of essay writing students must do in college but also ways of writing that will be useful to them as developing writers later in life. The author presents workable direct and useful strategies for writing effective personal biographical argumentative familiar and critical essays. Each essay form is discussed in detail and illustrated through examples that are analyzed in depth; these examples are illuminating and instructive because they offer ways of solving problems that all writers confront. The text concludes with a practical appendix on research materials that outlines the most useful research strategies for modern writers discussing both print resources and new on-line resources such as Lexis-Nexis CD-ROM on-line databases and services and the World Wide Web. Substance Style and Strategy stimulates students to develop their thoughts and feelings in skillful meaningful and expressive prose providing them with a thorough grounding in how to be writers for life.