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Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers Jacques Barzun
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

He explained that Carver's simple and direct style in prose held a real appeal for him. This post describes polysyndeton, asyndeton, and isocolon, three simple techniques of classical rhetoric—the effective and persuasive use of language. In fact, they are both To witness “Cause, Effect and Simple Answers” take over the airways, pay close attention to the rhetoric running up to the US election this year. The Crepuscolari ( the poets of the Twilight) * whose work was a reaction against the content-poetry and rhetorical style of (Nobel Prize winning poet) Giosue Carducci and Gabriele D'Annunzio, preferring to write in a more direct unadorned style. Though we have seen a growing interest in Latour in our field, I think it is important to note the ambivalent role of rhetoric and writing in his work. For over four decades, the Writer's Chronicle has served as a leading source of articles, news, and information for writers, editors, students, and teachers of writing. Good political science writing does not require striking metaphors or clever verbal constructions (while these are not precisely discouraged, they are not commonly regarded as necessary). Don't let the fancy names put you off: you'll In legal writing, polysyndeton can supply two types of emphasis. One writer had declared Europe was the cause of gold prices rising, the other said Europe was the cause of prices falling. Mayor Gray went on to describe how, early on in his business career, Not easy, necessarily, but simply.” I noticed that the Mayor's own approach to writing seems much neater Wordography, please email lexingtonwritersproject@gmail.com. Rhetoric operates within this correlationist frame, focusing conventionally on symbolic behavior with the premise that we do not have direct access to the world referenced by the symbols. Did the price of gold really go down as a direct result of the Fed dithering? In his well-known investigation of the modern split of the world into . Graf, an exponent of rather dark, fantastic themes in literature (Il Diavolo, Trans: The Story of the Devil) whose writing style was the direct opposite of D'Annunzio's, where D'Annunzio was full of bombast, Graf's was simple. Now for the issue of Simple Answers. First, “the result is to emphasize every And as with any form of rhetoric and persuasion, be wise: before resorting to classical rhetoric, make sure your writing is clear, direct, correct.