
Writing Prose
Techniques and Purposes, Canadian Edition
Oxford University Press, Canada
3rd Edition
Published on 9. October 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
504 pages
978-0-19-541287-1 (ISBN)
Description
Writing Prose is designed to acquaint students with the techniques of good prose through a range of writing samples including classics, such as Swift's 'A Modest Proposal', as well as contemporary essays by lesser-known authors. Ranging in length from short paragraphs to complete essays, the readings are grouped according to traditional rhetorical categories-exposition, argument, description, and narration, along with definition, persuasion, and 'writing
about writing'.
about writing'.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
539 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-541287-1 (9780195412871)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Maurice Legris is Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Alberta. Thomas Kane and Leonard Peters are both at the University of Connecticut.
Author
Emeritus, Department of English, University of Alberta
both Emeritus, Department of English, University of Connecticut
Content
Preface ; A Note to the Student ; EXPOSITION ; Illustration ; Patterns ; Our Deteriorating Environment ; The Haunting Powers of God's Dog ; The London Poor ; Talking 'Funny' ; Man's Best Friend? ; A Whale of a Time ; Romancing the Stones ; Restatement ; Reluctant Villain ; From Gabriel Dumont ; Indignation, Resentment, and Collective Guilt ; Blazing Skies ; Comparison ; The New Porn ; What If?-English versus German and French ; Untamed World ; Analogy ; The Parts of Speech ; The Dissertation and the Mime ; Titanic and Leviathan ; In Praise of the Humble Comma ; Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Masters ; Reasons ; The Threat to Canada's Beauty ; How I Learned to (Almost) Love the Sin Lobbyists ; That &*?#@ Machine ; Effects ; Los Angeles Notebook ; Night Walkers and Mystery Mongers: Sense and Nonsense at the Edge of Science ; Cold Fury, White Death ; Hot and Bothered by 'Disgusting' Names ; Analysis ; Out of the Shadow of The Bay ; Cultural Genocide ; Unreasonable Facsimile ; The Chicken Farm ; The Right Call ; Call of the Wild ; DEFINITION ; Toilet ; Plot ; Conservation Defined ; Scouts ; The Fact of Sin ; The Metric System (Sort Of) ; PERSUASION ; Bungee Jumping over Victoria Falls ; Purse Snatching ; Of Love in Infants ; Women in Prison ; A Modest Proposal ; The Golf Ball on the Grass ; On Receiving the Nobel Prize ; The Search for Marvin Gardens ; Fiddling while Africa Starves ; Igniting the Entrepreneurial Spark ; ARGUMENT ; Liberalism and Censorship ; The Shock-Art Fallacy ; The Implications of a Free Society ; Streets that Work ; The Motive for Metaphor ; Be Fruitful, Or Else ; DESCRIPTION ; Hard Times in the Old West ; Stagecoach Station ; The Belly of Ontario ; A Paris Plongeur ; Biter's Banquet ; Flights of Fancy ; The Snake Man ; Bubbles in the Ice ; Welcome to the Death Hilton ; Lucy in the Sky ; Above the Line ; In the Eye of the Wind ; NARRATION ; True North ; The Loss of the Cospatrick ; The Unicorn in the Garden ; From The Great Lone Land ; On a Hill Far Away ; Tobogganing ; A, B, and C ; Overeating in College ; Once More to the Lake ; A Tale of a Canadian Book up against the System ; WRITING ABOUT WRITING ; The Singular First Person ; Courtesy to Readers-Clarity ; CLUTTER ; Notes on Punctuation ; Cliches Aren't Everything ; Mad Metaphors ; Native Themes ; Portrait of the Essay as a Warm Body ; Acknowledgements ; Glossary ; Thematic Index ; Author-Title Index