The Pen Commandments
Published on 18. December 2007
336 pages
978-0-307-42915-5 (ISBN)
Description
Steven Frank has a new approach to writing: fun first, rules to follow, success for all. In The Pen Commandments, his offbeat and entertaining guide, he's given us a book that all writers can turn to for help and a good laugh. With outrageous anecdotes (how a kid's oral surgery led to the ultimate writing assignment) and irreverent advice (Thou Shalt Not Kill Thy Sentences), Frank shows how to conquer writer's block, make friends with punctuation, and live forever in words. If you want to inspire your kids of just want to brush up on your own skills, The Pen Commandments will change-and enliven-the way you write forever.
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Steven Frank has been a high school English teacher for ten years. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Eight Ways to Save Words
- Chapter Three
- Anatomy of a Sentence
- Diseases and Cures
- Case Studies
- Chapter Four
- . (period)
- , (comma)
- (semicolon)
- : (colon)
- - (dash)
- ( ) (parentheses)
- - (hyphen)
- ' (apostrophe)
- " " (quotation marks)
- ? (question mark)
- ! (exclamation point)
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Good Descriptive Writing: The Essentials
- Three Types of Descriptive Writing
- Persuasive Writing
- Narrative Writing
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- ESSAY
- 30 MINUTES
- 20 MINUTES
- 15 MINUTES
- 0 MINUTES
- READ THE DIRECTIONS
- 30 MINUTES
- Chapter Nine
- Writer's Block-Suggestions
- Writer's Block-Case Studies (The Specific Task Is in Parentheses)
- Chapter Ten
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments
- Recommended Reading
- About The Author
- Copyright Page
