The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing - Rilegato

Clark, Roy Peter

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ISBN 10: 0316282170 ISBN 13: 9780316282178

Casa editrice: Little Brown & Co, 2016

Riassunto

Roy Peter Clark, one of America's most influential writing teachers, offers writing lessons we can draw from 25 great texts.

Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made. In The Art of X-Ray Reading, Clark invites you to don your X-ray reading glasses and join him on a guided tour through some of the most exquisite and masterful literary works of all time, from The Great Gatsby to Lolita to The Bluest Eye, and many more. Along the way, he shows you how to mine these masterpieces for invaluable writing strategies that you can add to your arsenal and apply in your own writing. Once you've experienced X-ray reading, your writing will never be the same again.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Roy Peter Clark is senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, one of the most prestigious schools for journalists in the world. He has taught writing at every level -- from schoolchildren to Pulitzer Prize-winning authors -- for more than forty years.

A writer who teaches and a teacher who writes, he has authored or edited nineteen books on writing and journalism, including The Art of X-Ray Reading, How to Write Short, Writing Tools, The Glamour of Grammar, and Help! for Writers. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he is considered a garage-band legend.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Little Brown & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0316282170
• ISBN 13: 9780316282178
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 326
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile