The New Oxford Guide to Writing

Thomas S. Kane

An essential addition to your reference library, providing abundant assistance and encouragement to write with more clarity, more color, and more force
Highlighted by numerous examples of successful prose--including marvelous, brief excerpts from Mark Twain, Joan Didion, H.L. Mencken, E.B. White, and Annie Dillard
Shows how to use commonplace books and journals to store ideas, how to brainstorm, how to explore a potential topic systematically
Instructs readers to use a statement of purpose or an outline to give preliminary shape to your material, to use drafts and revisions (and more revisions) to refine your ideas
Explains how to open an essay clearly and interestingly, how to organize ideas into a coherent paragraph, how to select words that convey both information and point of view
Contains a useful appendix on punctuation, ranging from commas and periods to underlining and capitalization

The New Oxford Guide to Writing

Thomas S. Kane

Description

Many books on writing tell you how to think more creatively, how to conjure up an idea from scratch. Many, once you have an idea, show you how to express it clearly and elegantly. And many handbooks offer reliable advice on the use of commas, semicolons, and so forth. But The New Oxford Guide to Writing does all three, so that no matter where you find yourself in the writing process--from the daunting look of a blank page, to the rough draft that needs shaping, to the small but important questions of punctuation--you will find what you need in one handy volume.

Highlighted by numerous examples of successful prose--including marvelous, brief excerpts from Mark Twain, Joan Didion, H.L. Mencken, E.B. White, and Annie Dillard--this stimulating volume covers the entire subject step-by-step, clearly and authoritatively.

Whether you write for business or for pleasure, whether you are a beginner or an experienced pro, The New Oxford Guide to Writing is an essential addition to your reference library, providing abundant assistance and encouragement to write with more clarity, more color, and more force.

The New Oxford Guide to Writing

Thomas S. Kane

Author Information

Thomas Kane was formerly Professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Waterbury, where he taught writing for over twenty-five years. He co-edited The Short Story and the Reader and Writing Prose, Sixth Edition, both with Leonard J. Peters, and wrote The Oxford Guide to Writing.