Graff, Gerald
Summary: The authors identify the key rhetorical moves in academic writing, showing students how to frame their arguments in the larger context of what others have said and providing templates to help them make those moves. Because these moves are central across all disciplines, the book includes chapters on writing in the sciences, writing in the social sciences, and writing about literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.042 SCHFridland, Valerie
Summary: "A linguistic exploration of the speech habits we love to hate-and why our "um"s, "like"s, and "you know"s actually make us better communicators. Do you hate that you say "like" too much? Do you go over your email drafts to remove excess "so"s and "really"s? Do you wish your presentation at work wasn't so full of "um"s and "uh"s? Do you get tripped up by slang, overly familiar greetings, or new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 420.1 FRISummary: Great writing begins--and ends--with the sentence. Whether two words ("Jesus wept.") or 1,287 words (a sentence in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!), sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Understanding the variety of ways to construct sentences, from the smallest clause to the longest sentence, is important to enhancing your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 808.042 LANRoyal, Brandon
Summary: This deluxe edition contains the complete contents of "The Little Red Writing Book" and "The Little Gold Grammar Book." Whereas writing is based on principles - in which writing is deemed better or worse, more effective or less effective - grammar is based on rules, in which writing is deemed right or wrong, correct or incorrect. With coverage of the most useful writing principles and the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maven Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.042 ROYGoodson, Patricia
Summary: A practical workbook of 50 exercises, helping you build your writing skills and master the specifics of academic writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SAGE 2017
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Summary: "Every day I write the book, a guide to style and writing for academics, is Amitava Kumar's fifth book of creative nonfiction with Duke University Press. Written in short first-person vignettes, this book melds form and content to explore the writing process both in and out of the academy, while offering a portrait of Kumar's writing life throughout. Kumar, whose background is in literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.06 KUMGwynne, N. M.
Summary: "Crushing national Debt? Climate Change? No: the greatest danger to our way of life is the decline of grammar. Thus preaches the inimitable Mr Gwynne as he shows us the way out of this sorry state. "Grammar is the science of using words rightly, leadingto thinking rightly, leading to deciding rightly, without which-as both common sense and experience show-happiness is impossible. Therefore,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 425 GWYMcPhee, John
Summary: The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher Draft No. 4 is an elucidation of the writer's craft by a master practitioner. In a series of playful but expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he's gathered over his career and refined during his long-running course at Princeton University, where he has launched some of the most esteemed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 808 MCPWeston, Anthony
Summary: From academic writing to personal and public discourse, the need for good arguments and better ways of arguing is greater than ever before. This timely fifth edition of A Rulebook for Arguments sharpens an already-classic text, adding updated examples and a new chapter on public debates that provides rules for the etiquette and ethics of sound public dialogue as well as clear and sound thinking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Math WestonFish, Stanley Eugene.
Summary: Fish has always been an aficionado of language, marveling at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences. Here he offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure, skills invaluable to any writer (or reader)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 808 FISEvans, Harold
Summary: Harry Evans has edited everything from the urgent files of battlefield reporters to the complex thought processes of Henry Kissinger. He's even been knighted for his services to journalism. In DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?, he brings his indispensable insight to us all in his definite guide to writing well. The right words are oxygen to our ideas, but the digital era, with all of its TTYL, LMK, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 EVAGornick, Vivian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.9492 GORZinsser, William Knowlton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: Outskirts Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371 LOCLeggett, Glenn H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice Hall 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word FrankSankovitch, Nina.
Summary: "Witty, moving, informative, and inspiring, Signed, Sealed, Delivered begins with Nina Sankovitch's discovery of trunk filled with a trove of hundred-year old letters in an old house she has just bought with her husband. They are from a Princeton freshman to his mother. Sankovitch cannot help think of her own son, who is about to go off to Harvard, and of the letters she's kept and cherished...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.6 SANStrunk, William
Summary: An enhanced edition of the classic writing manual features humorous art by a popular children's book illustrator and New Yorker cover artist, in a volume that provides visual and whimsical embellishments to the original instructive text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 808.02 STRStrunk, William
Summary: This book is a prescriptive American English writing style guide comprising eight "elementary rules of usage", ten "elementary principles of composition", "a few matters of form", a list of forty-nine "words and expressions commonly misused", and a list of fifty-seven "words often misspelled".
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allyn and Bacon 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 808 THOSankovitch, Nina.
Summary: "Sankovitch goes on a quest through the history of letters to discover and celebrate what is special about the handwritten letter, examining not only historical letters but also the letters in epistolary novels, her husband's love letters, and dozens more sources. Sankovitch reminds us that the letters we write are as important as the ones we wait for"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 809.6 SANBrown, Laura Marie.
Summary: Provides a common-sense approach on how to write anything, from college applications to baby announcements, and includes information on how to appropriately craft a message, choose the right words, and the select the most appropriate medium.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.042 BROClark, Roy Peter
Summary: A collection of over a hundred writing tips gleaned from fifty popular writing books. Chapters are devoted to each key strategy. Author expands and contextualizes original authors' suggestions and shares how each tip helped other authors improve their skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2020