The Common Writer: Theory and Practice for Writers and Teachers

by Robert Neale

What makes good writing good? Can anyone learn to write well? How does language work? The Common Writer explores questions such as these, suggesting ways in which writers can best express what they want to say and communicate it to their readers. Invoking the experience (and words) of many famous writers, it acknowledges the complexities of meaning, and examines the gap between words and the things they refer to. From that gap emerge ideas about metaphor,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195582217
• ISBN13: 9780195582215
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.1"