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Oct 17, 2008
Chanel
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As far as style guides go, this is one of my favorites. I like how it stayed away from listing "rules" and instead talked about how different sentences create meaning differently. For about a month after I read this book it was really hard to write, because I wanted every sentence to be as perfect as the examples in this book.
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Here is the book review I wrote for one of my classes:
“The streets were calm with Sunday.”
With this quote from Aim More...
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May 04, 2009
Stidmama
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This is a marvelous book. Not good for sitting down and just reading through necessarily, but excellent as a reference and style manual.
Virginia Tufte's long experience allows her to gracefully accept variations in style and therefore avoid prescriptive dogmas. Elegant explanations of current thinking on matters of syntax, combined with numerous examples that demonstrate the differences between valid stylistic choices provide the reader, whether relatively new to grammatical thinki More...
Virginia Tufte's long experience allows her to gracefully accept variations in style and therefore avoid prescriptive dogmas. Elegant explanations of current thinking on matters of syntax, combined with numerous examples that demonstrate the differences between valid stylistic choices provide the reader, whether relatively new to grammatical thinki More...
Mar 22, 2008
Tracy
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This is a book for writers, and those who have to read and grade papers. Myself, I'm not big on deconstruction as that path usually leads to meaninglessness and dissatisfaction. So, I galloped through the dissections, but the book is bursting with culled sentences as examples of the different constructions. And, they are good 'uns.
A writer will learn by reading this book, whether she reads Virginia Tufte's parsing or not. Tufte breaks the sentences down quite well (I sneaked a More...
A writer will learn by reading this book, whether she reads Virginia Tufte's parsing or not. Tufte breaks the sentences down quite well (I sneaked a More...
Apr 10, 2011
Deborah
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Lots of cool sentences and plenty of ideas to think about them with (and you'd think I'd write a better one here after reading it, right?)
Jul 18, 2008
James M.
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One of the best ways of teaching is to show rather than just to tell, and in this book, Virginia Tufte (Edward Tufte's mother [thanks, Dan, for correcting my misperception that she was his wife!]) fills her chapters with literary examples of the stylistic elements that she wants to illustrate. The extracts tend to be short, but they're no less beautiful or illustrative for that.
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Apr 06, 2010
flannery
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This book is titillating, if you're the kind of person who's titillated by whole chapters on short sentences and parallelism. IF YOU ARE, I might also recommend Edward Tufte's book on diagrams, "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information". IF YOU ARE NOT, well, who would blame you.
Sep 25, 2008
Mary Louise
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Yummy! Diverse and gorgeous examples to teach grammar. Definately buy this one.
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