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Plain Style : A Guide to Written English by Christopher Lasch (2002, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-100812236734
ISBN-139780812236736
eBay Product ID (ePID)2266445
Product Key Features
Number of Pages136 Pages
Publication NamePlain Style : a Guide to Written English
LanguageEnglish
SubjectStyle Manuals, Writing Skills, Grammar & Punctuation, Rhetoric
Publication Year2002
TypeNot Available
Subject AreaRéférence, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorChristopher Lasch
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2002-019163
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"The late Lasch, college history professor and the author of The Culture of Narcissism (1979), among other seminal works, so despaired of his graduate students' writing that he began to compile a list of common compositional errors. This list soon evolved into a full-fledged writing guide . . . covering the principles of literary construction; conventions governing punctuation, capitalization, typography, and footnotes; characteristics of bad writing; words often misused; words often mispronounced; and a table of proofreaders' marks. Lasch's wry, distinctive voice is evident throughout. . . . For serious word lovers."--Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist
Dewey Decimal808/.042
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Table Of ContentIntroduction: Christopher Lasch and the Politics of the Plain Style A Note on the Text I Elementary Principles of Literary Construction II Conventions Governing Punctuation, Capitalization, Typography, and Footnotes III Characteristics of Bad Writing IV Words Often Misused V Words Often Mispronounced VI Proofreaders' Marks Index
Synopsis"The late Lasch, college history professor and the author of The Culture of Narcissism (1979), among other seminal works, so despaired of his graduate students' writing that he began to compile a list of common compositional errors. This list soon evolved into a full-fledged writing guide. . . . Lasch's wry, distinctive voice is evident throughout."--Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist, Plain Style is an amusing and instructive guide to written English by the late Christopher Lasch, author of The Culture of Narcissism , The True and Only Heaven , and many other memorable works of American history and social criticism. Written for the benefit of the students at the University of Rochester, where Lasch taught from 1970 until his death in 1994, it quickly established itself in typescript as a local classic--a lively, witty, and historically minded alternative to the famous volume by William Strunk and E. B. White, The Elements of Style . Now available for the first time in published form, Plain Style is fundamentally a clear, readable, practical guide to the timeless principles of effective composition. At the same time, however, in ways that Stewart Weaver explains in his critical introduction, it is a distinctive and revealing addition to the published work of an eminent American thinker. No mere primer, Plain Style is an essay in cultural criticism, a political treatise even, by one for whom directness, clarity, and honesty of expression were essential to the living spirit of democracy. As the teachers and students who have for years benefited from its succinct wisdom will testify, Plain Style is an indispensable guide to writing and, indeed, Christopher Lasch's least-expected but perhaps most serviceable work.
LC Classification NumberPE1408.L3195 2002
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