Polishing Your Prose: How to Turn First Drafts Into Finished Work

by Steven M. Cahn

Book Overview

This singular book illustrates how to edit a piece of prose and enhance its clarity of thought and felicity of style. The authors first present ten principles of effective composition, and then scrutinize three extended paragraphs, suggesting with remarkable specificity how to improve them. The volume also offers challenging practice questions, as well as two finished essays, one serious and one humorous, that demonstrate how attention to sound mechanics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231160895
• ISBN13: 9780231160896
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"