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The sense of structure : writing from the reader's perspective / George D. Gopen.
- Title
- The sense of structure : writing from the reader's perspective / George D. Gopen.
- Author
- Gopen, George D.,
- Publication
- New York : Pearson Longman, ©2004.
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- Description
- xv, 240 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- This composition guide for students teaches writing from the perspective of readers. Rather than laying out grammatical rules, the text focuses on how readers make decisions concerning what a given sentence or paragraph means. This approach is intended to help students realize what they already intu.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-236) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The Complexity of the English Sentence -- A Structural Anatomy of the English Sentence -- Weights and Balances; Motions and Connections -- "Whose Paragraph Is It, Anyway?": The Shapes of the English Paragraph -- "Write the Way You Speak" and Other Bad Pieces of Advice -- Mark My Words: A Reader's Perspective on the World of Punctuation.
- ISBN
- 0205296327
- 9780205296323
- LCCN
- ^^2003055624
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library