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... phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen - house . I list below , with notes and examples , various of the tricks by means of which the work of prose- construction is habitually dodged : DYING METAPHORS A newly ...
... phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen - house . I list below , with notes and examples , various of the tricks by means of which the work of prose- construction is habitually dodged : DYING METAPHORS A newly ...
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... phrase " success or failure in competitive activities . " This had to be so , because no modern writer of the kind I am discussing ― no one capable of using phrases like “ objective consid- eration of contemporary phenomena❞ — would ...
... phrase " success or failure in competitive activities . " This had to be so , because no modern writer of the kind I am discussing ― no one capable of using phrases like “ objective consid- eration of contemporary phenomena❞ — would ...
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... phrases , it would be hard to know where to begin . Just for starters , you'd have to consider : " Would you believe ? " from Don Adams as Maxwell Smart ; Mc- Garrett's " Book ' em , " from Hawaii Five - O ; Flo's endearing " Well ...
... phrases , it would be hard to know where to begin . Just for starters , you'd have to consider : " Would you believe ? " from Don Adams as Maxwell Smart ; Mc- Garrett's " Book ' em , " from Hawaii Five - O ; Flo's endearing " Well ...
Contents
Simplicity WILLIAM ZINSSER | 13 |
Freewriting PETER ELBOW | 19 |
Revising Your Own Manuscript | 28 |
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