Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose - Rilegato

Hale, Constance

 
9780767903080: Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
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ISBN 10: 0767903080 ISBN 13: 9780767903080
Casa editrice: Broadway Books, 1999

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An expert on contemporary copywriting offers clever and innovative advice on up-to-date writing styles, showing how to break through conventional modes to achieve a striking and hip style. $25,000 ad/promo.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Constance Hale (chale@well.com) is the author of Wired Style, the one-of-a-kind guide to online English usage and geekspeak that was hailed by Newsweek as "The Chicago Manual of Style for the Millennium." A former editor at Wired, Hale has written for numerous publications including the San Francisco Examiner and The Microsoft Network. She has created maverick writing courses for people of all ages, including a popular seminar called "Grammar for Grownups," and currently teaches at U.C. Berkeley. She lives in Oakland, California.

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iting to sell, shock, or just sing? The acclaimed author of Wired Style presents a hip, real-world guide to the rules of grammar and when to break them.

Today's writers need more spunk than Strunk. Whether crafted for the Great American Novel, Madison Avenue advertising, or Grammy Award-winning rap lyrics, memorable writing must jump off the page. Now, from copy veteran Constance Hale comes a fun, informative, indispensable guide to taking your writing from ordinary to extraordinary.

Sin and Syntax is more than just a style manual with examinations of sentence structure and parts of speech. In addition to spelling out the basic rules, Constance Hale teaches you when and how to effectively break them. Chock full of examples from traditional and nontraditional prose from advertising jingles to song lyrics to literary classics Sin and Syntax shows you why learning to "sin" will make you a better write

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Editore
Broadway Books
Data di pubblicazione
1999
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0767903080
ISBN 13 
9780767903080
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
285
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9780767903097: Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose

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ISBN 10:  0767903099 ISBN 13:  9780767903097
Casa editrice: Three Rivers Pr, 2001
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