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050 00 $aPN147$b.O27 1999
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100 1 $aO'Conner, Patricia T.
245 10 $aWords fail me :$bwhat everyone who writes should know about writing /$cPatricia T. O'Connor.
246 30 $aWhat everyone who writes should know about writing
250 $a1st Harvest ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarcourt,$c2000.
300 $aviii, 228 pages ;$c22 cm.
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490 0 $aHarvest book
500 $aOriginally published as hbk.: Harcourt Brace, ℗♭1999.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (page 223) and index.
505 0 $aIs your egg ready to hatch? Know the subject -- "The party to whom I am speaking": know the audience -- Get with the program: the organized writer -- Commencement address: the first few words -- From here to uncertainty: how am I doing? -- Pompous circumstances: hold the baloney -- The life of the party: verbs that zing -- Call waiting: putting the subject on hold -- Now, where were we? A time and a place for everything -- The it parade: pronoun pileups -- Smothering heights: misbehaving modifiers -- Too marvelous for words: the sensible sentence -- Made for each other: well-matched sentences -- Give me a break: thinking in paragraphs -- The elongated yellow fruit: fear of repetition -- Training wheels: belaboring the obvious -- Critique of poor reason: the art of making sense -- Grammar Moses: thou shalt not embarrass thyself-- Down for the count: when the numbers don't add up -- Lost horizon: what's the point of view? -- Wimping out: the backward writer -- Everybody's favorite subject: I, me, my -- Promises, promises: making them, keeping them -- You got rhythm: writing to the beat -- The human comedy: what's so funny? -- I second that emotion: once more, with feeling -- The importance of being honest: leveling with the reader -- Once around the block: what to do when you're stuck -- Debt before dishonor: how and what to borrow -- Revise and consent: getting to the finish line.
520 $aArmed with our laptops and our PCs, we're the writing-est generation ever, cranking out e-mail, Web pages, and blogs, not to mention office memos, faxes, reports, newsletters, school papers, even memoirs and novels. But many of us were never taught how to write a sentence that makes sense, how to make sure our words do justice to our ideas. The result? Never have so many written so much so badly. O'Conner comes to the rescue with a practical and witty guide to the elements of good writing--From publisher description.
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