Write It Right: A little blacklist of literary faults

Name: Write It Right: A little blacklist of literary faults
Author: Ambrose Bierce
ISBN: 9781910150337

Author: Ambrose Bierce, Josh Verbae
Series: Ideas for Life
Language: English
Length: 60 pages
ISBN: 9781910150337
Published: 15 January 2014
Imprint: The Big Nest

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Description

The author's main purpose in this book is to teach precision in writing; and of good writing (which, essentially, is clear thinking made visible) precision is the point of capital concern. It is attained by choice of the word that accurately and adequately expresses what the writer has in mind, and by exclusion of that which either denotes or connotes something else. As Quintilian puts it, the writer should so write that his reader not only may, but must, understand.

Author

Ambrose Bierce was an American short story writer, editorialist, journalist, fabulist, and satirist. His most famous work includes: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The Cynic's Dictionary, Write It Right. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction.

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