Name: Clear, Precise, Direct By Duncan Koerber (Instructor in the Professional Writing Program, Instructor in the Professional Writing Program, York University)
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Clear, Precise, Direct: Strategies for Writing by Duncan Koerber (Instructor in the Professional Writing Program, Instructor in the Professional Writing Program, York University)

Clear, Precise, Direct provides a concise set of strategies to help students improve their writing skills at the sentence level with a focus on application and revision. Students will learn the key principles of clear, effective writing and practice applying them to their own work through a series of lessons, exercises, and peer writing samples.

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Perhaps strong above all is this text's emphasis on process (e.g., the importance of freewriting) as well as the richness of the instruction throughout that seems to come from tearing down the wall between composition and 'creative' writing. Freedom at last! * Sheila M. Ross, Capilano University *
I find this text to be applicable to both expository and creative writing classes, and it's great that the text can bridge these different aspects of writing instruction. . . . This text is in many ways new in its approach, and I think its innovative nature is most welcome in the world of textbooks. * Christopher Lee, Western University *

About Duncan Koerber (Instructor in the Professional Writing Program, Instructor in the Professional Writing Program, York University)

Duncan Koerber teaches in the Professional Writing Program at York University. He is the founder of Mediahistory.ca, a bibliographic database for the growing academic field of media history in Canada. Guy Allen is the program coordinator for the Professional Writing and Communication Program at the University of Toronto. He has won three university-wide teaching awards and the 3M National Teaching Fellowship. He also co-founded Life Rattle Press, a non-profit publisher of narrative literature

From the Publisher ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; 1. WRITE NOW: START, DEVELOP, REVISE ; Where to Start ; Examples of Freewriting ; Two Composition Approaches ; Beginning with Storytelling ; - The Stovepipe Hole by Elizabeth Clark ; - Cell Phone by Peter Palladini ; Academic Writing ; Revision ; Types of Editing ; How and Where to Edit ; Chapter Summary ; Further Readings ; 2. ECONOMY ; The Morality of Wordiness ; Forms of Wordiness ; Editing Wordiness in Academic Writing ; Peer Models for Emulation ; - My Mom and Bramalea by Julie Michelangelo ; - The Pet Owner's Burden by Emilia Di Luca ; Chapter Summary ; Further Readings ; 3. STRONG VERBS ; Concrete Verbs ; Less-than-Concrete Verbs ; Abstract Verbs ; The Greater Consequences of Dead Verbs ; Academic Writing and Strong Verbs ; Final Thoughts ; Peer Models for Emulation ; - Going to Chinese School by Jennifer Lee ; - Stealing Spirituality: The Non-Native Use of Native American Spirit Guides by Graeme Scallion ; Chapter Summary ; Further Readings ; 4. ACTIVE VOICE ; Word Order ; Active Voice ; Passive Voice ; The Morality of Passive Voice ; The Permanence of Passive in Various Fields ; Is it Ever Okay to Use Passive? ; Academic Writing and Active Voice ; Final Thoughts on Active and Passive ; Peer Models for Emulation ; - Jafar Uncle's Chocolates by Nabila Rizvi ; - A Flourishing of Humans by Sara Menuck ; Chapter Summary ; Further Readings ; 5. STRONG NOUNS ; The Problem of Pronouns ; Examples of Unclear Pronouns ; Pronouns and Repetition ; The Morality of Unclear Pronouns ; Inclusive Pronouns ; Subject-Verb Agreement ; Adjective-Pronoun Agreement ; Academic Writing, Strong Nouns, and Vague Pronouns ; Final Thoughts on Nouns and Pronouns ; Peer Models for Emulation ; - Two Weeks at Notre Dame Hospital by Eric Ramadi ; - Tobacco Cigarettes as a Cause of Urinary Bladder Cancer by Elizabeth Dancey ; Chapter Summary ; Further Readings ; 6. ORIGINAL LANGUAGE ; Examples of Cliches ; Why Would Any Writer Use Cliches? ; Is it Ever Okay to Use a Cliche? ; Original Phrasing ; Fresh Figurative Language ; Academic Writing and Original Language ; Final Thoughts on Figurative Language and Originality ; Peer Models for Examination ; - Christine by Adam Giles ; - Financial Hardship among Former Professional Athletes and Its Contributing Factors by Taylor Lush ; Chapter Summary ; Further Readings ; 7. PARALLELISM ; The Grammar Behind Parallelism ; Surface and Under-the-Surface Parallelism ; Single-Element Parallelism: Part I ; Single-Element Parallelism: Part II ; Multiple-Element Parallelism ; Academic Writing and Parallelism ; Interview-based Articles ; Doing the Interview ; The Questioner and the Listener ; Writing Interviews ; Peer Models for Emulation ; - Two Hard Years by Joyce Ong ; - Solace in Obsolescence: Vinyl in the Age of Free Music by Nicole Brewer ; Chapter Summary ; Further Readings ; 8. SENTENCE VARIATION AND SOUND ; Sentence Patterns ; Short Sentences ; Long Sentences ; Variation of Long and Short for Effect ; Academic Writing and Sentence Variation ; Sound ; Personal Essays ; The Power of the Personal Essay ; Writer as Cultural Observer ; Writer as Activist ; Personal Essays and the Truth ; Three Rhetorical Elements ; Peer Model Writing for Emulation ; - I Wear My Too-black Skin with Pride by Petura Burrows ; - Saints and Monsters: The Psychology of Altruism and Malice by Nick Zabara ; Chapter Summary ; Further Readings ; Appendix: Research and Citations ; Glossary ; Credits ; Works Cited ; Index

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Clear, Precise, Direct: Strategies for Writing by Duncan Koerber (Instructor in the Professional Writing Program, Instructor in the Professional Writing Program, York University)

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Duncan Koerber (Instructor in the Professional Writing Program, Instructor in the Professional Writing Program, York University)

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20141030

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304

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