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An indispensable guide to essential principles of English grammar and usage
Stellar English lays out the fundamentals of effective writing, from word choice and punctuation to parts of speech and common errors. Frank Cioffi emphasizes how formal written English—though only a subdialect of the language—enables writers to reach a wide and heterogenous audience.
Cioffi’s many example sentences illustrating grammatical principles tilt in an otherworldly direction, making up a science fiction story involving alien invasion. Reading the book through will not only help you with your grammar but also reveal how the story ends!
An invaluable brief handbook for native and nonnative speakers alike, Stellar English avoids the jargon and emphasis on outdated rules found in typical grammar guides and shows how good writing uses carefully constructed language that’s at once appropriate to an audience and communicates—without distractions or confusion—just what the writer wants.
An indispensable guide to essential principles of English grammar and usage
Stellar English lays out the fundamentals of effective writing, from word choice and punctuation to parts of speech and common errors. Frank Cioffi emphasizes how formal written English—though only a subdialect of the language—enables writers to reach a wide and heterogenous audience.
Cioffi’s many example sentences illustrating grammatical principles tilt in an otherworldly direction, making up a science fiction story involving alien invasion. Reading the book through will not only help you with your grammar but also reveal how the story ends!
An invaluable brief handbook for native and nonnative speakers alike, Stellar English avoids the jargon and emphasis on outdated rules found in typical grammar guides and shows how good writing uses carefully constructed language that’s at once appropriate to an audience and communicates—without distractions or confusion—just what the writer wants.
- Introduction
- PART ONE Credibility
- 1 Sentence-Level Issues: Fragments
- 2 Sentence-Level Issues: Run-ons and Subject-Verb Agreement
- PART TWO Communicativeness
- 3 Verbs
- 4 Nouns and Pronouns
- PART THREE Complexity
- 5 Modifiers: Adjectives
- 6 Modifiers: Adverbs
- PART FOUR Confidence
- 7 Predeterminers, Central Determiners, and Postdeterminers
- 8 Varieties of Definiteness, or More Essentials of The and A/An
- PART FIVE Clarity
- 9 Semicolons, Hyphens, and Other Baffling Punctuation Marks
- 10 A Special Case: Commas
- PART SIX Comprehensibility
- 11 Creating Understandable Sentences: Metaphoric Language, Parallelism, Jargon, Slang, and Clichés
- 12 Word-Level Issues
- PART SEVEN Consequentiality
- Epilogue
- Appendix. For Further Reading: Ten Indispensable Resources
- Acknowledgments
- Works Cited
- Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe |
| Rubrik: | Sprachwissenschaft |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Reihe: | Skills for Scholars |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780691239392 |
| ISBN-10: | 0691239398 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Cioffi, Frank L. |
| Hersteller: |
Princeton University Press
Skills for Scholars |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 202 x 125 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Frank L. Cioffi |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 25.06.2024 |
| Gewicht: | 0,332 kg |
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