The New Well Tempered Sentence
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The New Well Tempered Sentence
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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2003
The New Well Tempered Sentence written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Education categories.
The basic rules governing the use of periods, semicolons, hyphens, commas, and other punctuation marks are illustrated by original explanations and humorous sample sentences. Reprint.
The Well Tempered Sentence
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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Clarion Books
Release Date : 1983
The Well Tempered Sentence written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and has been published by Clarion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with English language categories.
Collectin of bizarre, but instructional sentences used to help take the pain out of punctuation.
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire
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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 1993-08-10
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-08-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Playful and practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit and the blackest of humor. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.
The Disheveled Dictionary
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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2003
The Disheveled Dictionary written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Education categories.
Uses imaginative examples to illustrate the meaning of words from abrogate, brouhaha, and cachinnate to susurration, truculence, and voluble.
The Transitive Vampire
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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 1984
The Transitive Vampire written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Engelsk grammatik categories.
Playful and practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit and the blackest of humor. Gordon has taken her enormously successful book of English usage and expanded it to include more rules, fine points, examples, and illustrations. Playful and practical, this style book combines classic questions of usage with wit and the blackest of humor.
Paris Out Of Hand
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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 1996-08
Paris Out Of Hand written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08 with Humor categories.
An illustrated guide to a surrealist Paris. At the Cinema l'Ange des Sables, they show only movies shot in the desert, while in the Cafe Dada you insert food into an automatic dispenser and get money. By the author of The Red Shoes.
Torn Wings And Faux Pas
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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1997
Torn Wings And Faux Pas written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with English language categories.
Karen Elizabeth Gordon, in this engaging, Gothic, quick-fix handbook--an ideal complement to The Deluxe Transitive Vampire--playfully instructs her readers about grammar and style as she plunges them into her magical world teeming with a wildly imaginative menagerie of winged and terrestrial creatures. Six eccentric fictional authorities, including sex-changing Natty Ampersand and Medievalist Vargas Scronx, give the book a sense of send-up in addition to its trusty practicality. A farouche faun with cloven hoofs, black rats, sirens and sphinxes, turbaned serpents, dragons, brigands and a butler make their appearance in unforgettable sentences and imaginary landscapes, such as brooding Trajikistan, to beguile the reader through such confusions and corrections as dangling and misplaced modifiers, double negatives, parallel construction, and a voluptuous riot of word abuses and preferable usage. Gordon also tames such confusing grammatical beasts as the elliptical clause, split infinitives, and many more. Rikki Ducornet has drawn more than fifty whimsical illustrations that capture the eccentric spirit of the text. Torn Wings and Faux Pas makes the reader laugh out loud and shiver with pleasure while experiencing style, vocabulary, and the structures of language as a perpetual and fiendish delight.
Style
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Author : Richard A. Lanham
language : en
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Release Date : 2007-07-01
Style written by Richard A. Lanham and has been published by Paul Dry Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
“A necessary manual for those interested in the perpetuation, and the possibilities, of good English prose.”—Harper’s Magazine “[Lanham’s] style is notable for its audacity, liveliness, and grace.”—The Times Literary Supplement “The most applicably provocative book on the subject of prose style available. Imperative reading for all teachers and students of writing.”—Choice This humorous and accessible classic on style calls for the return of wordplay and delight to writing instruction. Richard Lanham argues that many tomes on writing, with their trio of platitudes—clarity, plainness, sincerity—lie “upon the spirit like wet cardboard.” "People seldom write to be clear. They have designs on their fellow men. Pure prose is as rare as pure virtue, and for the same reasons…The Books [Lanham’s term for misguided composition textbooks], written for a man and world yet unfallen, depict a ludicrous process like this: 'I have an idea. I want to present this gift to my fellow man. I fix this thought clearly in mind. I follow the rules. Out comes a prose that gift-wraps thought in transparent paper.' If this sounds like a travesty, it’s because it is one. Yet it dominates prose instruction in America."—from Chapter 1
The Writing Workshop Note Book
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Author : Alan Ziegler
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2007-11-20
The Writing Workshop Note Book written by Alan Ziegler and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Writing Workshop Notebook is devoted to making, remaking, and remarking on writing. Ziegler's text is animated by a concern about how we relate to our own and others’ writing and by a desire to have a suitable effect on the reader’s experience with writing and critiquing. The book is supported by the author's experience from decades of leading writing workshops.
The Red Shoes And Other Tattered Tales
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Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Red Shoes And Other Tattered Tales written by Karen Elizabeth Gordon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Fiction categories.
Best known for her Gothic language handbooks (reissued recently as The New Well-Tempered Sentence and The Deluxe Transitive Vampire), Karen Elizabeth Gordon here turns her extraordinary talents to fiction, and the result is as unconventional as her seductive grammar dramas. The Red Shoes consists of tatters of a half-dozen tales ("The Glass Shoe," "The Gingerbread Variations," "The Little Match Girl," "Don Juan Is a Woman," and the title story, among others) sewn together into a novel by two seamstresses. "Fabric, fabrication--such is the stuff of these lost chronicles come together here," Gordon writes in her introduction. "Swinging their hatboxes, swaying their hips, chapters with torn slips wander in on high heels and blistered feet." Looking back to the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, but also casting sidelong glances at metafictional sugardaddies like Queneau, Nabokov, Cortazar, Gass, and Milorad Pavic, The Red Shoes is a Rabelaisian romp through the language of sensuality.