Writing Prose: Techniques and Purposes, Canadian Edition - Brossura

Legris, Maurice; Kane, Thomas; Peters, Leonard

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ISBN 10: 0195412877 ISBN 13: 9780195412871

Casa editrice: OUP Canada, 2003

Riassunto

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'.

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Contenuti

• Preface
• A Note to the Student
• EXPOSITION
• Illustration
• Barbara W. Tuchman: Patterns
• Roger Revelle: Our Deteriorating Environment
• Wayne Grady: The Haunting Powers of God's Dog
• John Henry Raleigh: The London Poor
• J.A. Davidson: Talking 'Funny'
• James McCook: Man's Best Friend?
• Wayne Johnston: A Whale of a Time
• Gerald Hannon: Romancing the Stones
• Restatement
• Roy Vontobel: Reluctant Villain
• George Woodcock: From Gabriel Dumont
• Christina Hoff Sommers: Indignation, Resentment, and Collective Guilt
• Steve Burgess: Blazing Skies
• Comparison
• Nora Ephron: The New Porn
• Jacques Barzun: What If?—English versus German and French
• Elizabeth Kelly: Untamed World
• Analogy
• L.M. Myers: The Parts of Speech
• Nanette Vonnegut Mengel: The Dissertation and the Mime
• Gerald Weissmann: Titanic and Leviathan
• Pico Iyer: In Praise of the Humble Comma
• John Upkike: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Masters
• Reasons
• Charles Gordon: The Threat to Canada's Beauty
• Christopher Buckley: How I Learned to (Almost) Love the Sin Lobbyists
• Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco: That &*?#@ Machine
• Effects
• Joan Didion: Los Angeles Notebook
• Carl Sagan: Night Walkers and Mystery Mongers: Sense and Nonsense at the Edge of Science
• Bart Robinson: Cold Fury, White Death
• Alan Rayburn: Hot and Bothered by 'Disgusting' Names
• Analysis
• Charles K. Long: Out of the Shadow of The Bay
• Dale Eisler: Cultural Genocide
• Frederick Allen: Unreasonable Facsimile
• Joanne Kates: The Chicken Farm
• Kevin Patterson: The Right Call
• Charles Siebert: Call of the Wild
• DEFINITION
• Hugh Rawson: Toilet
• E.M. Forster: Plot
• Roderick Haig-Brown: Conservation Defined
• Allan Anderson: Scouts
• Henry Fairlie: The Fact of Sin
• Wayne Grady: The Metric System (Sort Of)
• PERSUASION
• Charles Gordon: Bungee Jumping over Victoria Falls
• Donna Lopiano: Purse Snatching
• Harry F. Harlow: Of Love in Infants
• Ruth Morris: Women in Prison
• Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
• James S. Trefil: The Golf Ball on the Grass
• William Faulkner: On Receiving the Nobel Prize
• John McPhee: The Search for Marvin Gardens
• P.J. O'Rourke: Fiddling while Africa Starves
• Peter C. Newman: Igniting the Entrepreneurial Spark
• ARGUMENT
• Ralph Heintzmann: Liberalism and Censorship
• Martha Bayles: The Shock-Art Fallacy
• Lester B. Pearson: The Implications of a Free Society
• Jane Jacobs: Streets that Work
• Northrop Frye: The Motive for Metaphor
• Peter Shawn Taylor: Be Fruitful, Or Else
• DESCRIPTION
• Pierre Berton: Hard Times in the Old West
• Mark Twain: Stagecoach Station
• Winston Collins: The Belly of Ontario
• George Orwell: A Paris Plongeur
• Dan Schneider: Biter's Banquet
• Adrian Forsyth: Flights of Fancy
• Hugh Dempsey: The Snake Man
• Henry David Thoreau: Bubbles in the Ice
• Paul Hemphill: Welcome to the Death Hilton
• David Bergen: Lucy in the Sky
• Charles Wilkins: Above the Line
• Sid Marty: In the Eye of the Wind
• NARRATION
• Margaret Atwood: True North
• Robert Carse: The Loss of the Cospatrick
• James Thurber: The Unicorn in the Garden
• William Francis Butler: From The Great Lone Land
• Annie Dillard: On a Hill Far Away
• Harry J. Boyle: Tobogganing
• Stephen Leacock: A, B, and C
• Anne U. Forber: Overeating in College
• E.B. White: Once More to the Lake
• Susan Juby: A Tale of a Canadian Book up against the System
• WRITING ABOUT WRITING
• Scott Russell Sanders: The Singular First Person
• F.L. Lucas: Courtesy to Readers—Clarity
• William Zinsser: CLUTTER
• Lewis Thomas: Notes on Punctuation
• Steve Rushin: Cliches Aren't Everything
• Victoria Branden: Mad Metaphors
• Drew Hayden Taylor: Native Themes
• Cynthia Ozick: Portrait of the Essay as a Warm Body
• Acknowledgements
• Glossary
• Thematic Index
• Author-Title Index

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• Editore: OUP Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0195412877
• ISBN 13: 9780195412871
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 504