作者:
Roy Peter Clark 出版社: CQ Press 副标题: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer 出版年: 2008-04-02 页数: 288 定价: USD 16.95 装帧: Spiral-bound ISBN: 9780872899636
Covering the writing waterfront-from basics on verb tense to the value of forming a "support group"-Poynter Institute vice president Clark offers tips, tricks and techniques for anyone putting fingers to keyboard. The best assets in Clark's book are in the "workshop" sections that conclude each chapter and list strategies for incorporating the material covered in each lesson (m...
Covering the writing waterfront-from basics on verb tense to the value of forming a "support group"-Poynter Institute vice president Clark offers tips, tricks and techniques for anyone putting fingers to keyboard. The best assets in Clark's book are in the "workshop" sections that conclude each chapter and list strategies for incorporating the material covered in each lesson (minimize adverbs, use active verbs, read your work aloud). Though some suggestions are classroom campy ("Listen to song lyrics to hear how the language moves on the ladder of abstraction" and "With some friends, take a big piece of chart paper and with colored markers draw a diagram of your writing process"), Clark's blend of instruction and exercise will prove especially useful for teachers. One exercise, for instance, suggests reading the newspaper and marking the location of subjects and verbs. Another provides a close reading of a passage from The Postman Always Rings Twice to look at the ways word placement and sentence structure can add punch to prose. Clark doesn't intend his guide to be a replacement for classic style guides like Elements of Style, but as a companion volume, it does the trick.
作者简介
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Roy Peter Clark is senior scholar at the Poynter Institute and founder of its writing center. Cole C. Campbell has been editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Virginian-Pilot, and the Greensboro News and Record and has served as a Fellow at the Poynter Institute, the Kettering Foundation, and the Knight program for journalists at Stanford University.
Nuts and Bolts
1. Begin sentences with subjects and verbs. Make meaning early, then let weaker elements branch to the right.
2. Order words for emphasis. Place strong words at the beginning and at the end.
3. Activate your verbs. Strong verbs create action, save words, and reveal the players.
4. Be passive-aggressive. Use passive verbs to showcase the "victim" of action.
5. Watch those adverbs. Use them to change the meaning of the verb.
6. Take it easy on the -ings. Prefer the simple present or past.
7. Fear not the long sentence. Take the reader on a journey of language and meaning.
8. Establish a pattern, then give it a twist. Build parallel constructions, but cut across the grain.
9. Let punctuation control pace and space. Learn the rules, but realize you have more options than you t... (查看原文)
If the writer wants to create suspense, or build tension, or make the reader wait and wonder, or join a journey of discovery, or hold on for dear life, he can save subject and verb of the main clause until later. As I just did. (查看原文)
"这本书和How to Write a Sentense and How to Read One的性质差不多，都是将英文写作拆分到细小的单元进行分析。它提到诸如语序的作用、长句子的构造和使用、每小节的长度处理、如何以影视作品的视角写作等等问题，并一一给出了答案。这两本书我是一起看的，感觉上面那本比较有效，这一本相对有点啰嗦。（不过也有可能是我还没有需求精细打磨某个自己创作的文学作品..）"
The book does what its title suggests, meticulously presents all the tactics that are often used by professional and savvy writers. With a succinct and informative table of contents, this book can serve as a dictionary of writing, readers can locate what ta...
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0 有用 Manchild 2013-12-18 01:48:17
我以为我再怎么读这种书都不会再有重要的收获了，但事实上我错了。
0 有用 yapapa 2019-07-04 16:26:30
英语写作指导书里这本可算是较好的。
0 有用 Vamei 2014-01-05 10:04:10
实用的写作建议。从用词到写书的计划，从微观到宏观，都提供了很有用的工具。
1 有用 予秋 2014-03-03 19:45:40
journal writing textbook. 写的真的不错，有点on the art of writing 那本书的味道。不过季羡林老先生也说过，将陈酒装进新瓶，也是付出劳动的。
0 有用 日尧 2016-04-28 00:14:51
"这本书和How to Write a Sentense and How to Read One的性质差不多，都是将英文写作拆分到细小的单元进行分析。它提到诸如语序的作用、长句子的构造和使用、每小节的长度处理、如何以影视作品的视角写作等等问题，并一一给出了答案。这两本书我是一起看的，感觉上面那本比较有效，这一本相对有点啰嗦。（不过也有可能是我还没有需求精细打磨某个自己创作的文学作品..）"
0 有用 qwer 2022-12-07 16:17:07 北京
可能因为对词性等等的东西只适用于英文，所以没有翻译版本？但是我觉得也给了中文写作者一些新的写作角度
0 有用 土生 2022-06-28 13:57:43
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0 有用 Lorraine 2022-02-22 21:32:27
配合中文版适用，因为想看英文原文，但是英文原文和解析都了解不透，可能中文解析食用效果更好~ 印象最深的一段竟然是杜兰特的河流和岸上，历史和文明。
0 有用 小薇 2021-12-25 12:20:46
非常赞！作者可谓倾囊相授，面面俱到。从遣词造句，到谋篇布局，再到前期准备与后期出版都事无巨细，一一道来。本书文字简洁明了，举例精当，说理清晰，并佐以实战练习，是一本非常实用的工具书。虽然本人无意于开拓写作事业，但作为一名文字爱好者，阅读此书还是深感振奋，受益匪浅。
0 有用 飞飞飞💓 2021-12-17 21:06:44
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