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The Well-Crafted Sentence
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Nora Bacon
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Bring style back to the classroom

Grounded in the art of writing, The Well-Crafted Sentence zeroes in on the sentence, offering a range of revision strategies that lead students to write fuller, more well-developed prose. In a friendly, conversational style, Nora Bacon makes clear how and why sentences work to focus, balance, develop, and qualify writers’ ideas.

Because students are more likely to try out new sentence structures if they’ve seen them in writing they admire, examples throughout the text are drawn from readings by accomplished stylists whose full pieces are also included in a chapter at the end of the book. Integrated exercises and editing practice help students apply concepts to their own writing.

Affordable and brief, The Well-Crafted Sentence works as a core classroom text or as a supplement.
 "At last, to the sentences themselves! The Well-Crafted Sentence uses abundant examples and exercises to help students write rhetorically effective sentences. Students urgently need the tightly focused approach offered in Bacon’s book."
— Alf Seegert, University of Utah
 
The Well-Crafted Sentence

The Well-Crafted Sentence
A Writer's Guide to Style
Paper Text, 352pgs.
ISBN: 0-312-47155-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-47155-2

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