The Common Sense: What to Write, How to Write It, and Why

by Marie Ponsot and Rosemary Deen

The Common Sense is elemental and beautifully succinct. It focuses on the expository essay, which, despite its association with abominable teaching techniques and vapid results, is at its best the one form that reveals to students and teachers the power of writing. "It is not second-rate writing," Deen and Ponsot state, "nor is teaching it second-rate work."

This is a commonsensical text that puts its principles directly at the service...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867090790
• ISBN13: 9780867090796
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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THE BEST EVER

This is by far the most valuable book I own! "The Common Sense" is a set of incremental writing notions that can lead ANY writer toward mastery of the essay. It harnesses the innate power of language and the fundamental shape of one's attention rather than relying of prescriptives. Throughout the U.S., composition teachers in classrooms use this as their text book--the only one they need. A syllabus is in the back of the book. The Teacher accompaniment to this book is "Beat Not the Poor Desk"--the second most valuable book I own.