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

The best one is perhaps the following from C.S. I somewhat arbitrarily picked up Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers by Jacques Barzun in a used book store. Each of us were disappointed and frustrated in the rhetoric delivered this past week, not only because of what was said but because of the impact of such words on day-to-day lives. Jacques Barzun elaborated on a similar idea in Simple and Direct: a rhetoric for writers: What a fuss over a word! Moreover it is unacceptable for the executive of the government to direct discussion of accountability to one sector of the population, one that abundant research shows is one of the most vulnerable to all kinds of discrimination, and yet only . At the beginning of the book, there are some great quotes. I am an above average writer and teacher. €�If your nouns are simple, your verbs active, and your pronouns are in good order,” Jacques Barzun writes in Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers, “then you owe it to your readers and yourself to be strict with your modifiers.”. Orwell's comments on style are excellent, as one would expect. It is OK to use “big” words if that is the precise meaning you want. 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. #2 Simple does not mean simplistic. [Click here for PDF version of this article.] In legal writing, plain English is good, and legalese is bad. Dominic Brown says: April 22, 2009 at 3:09 pm. Howe Writing Center - Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Self-evaluation or progress report; Interview (with experts from disciplinary or professional fields); Analytical essay using simpler forms of analysis (critiquing a text using stated criteria; tracing a theme or metaphor, investigating rhetorical features Simple questionnaires, surveys or direct observations of disciplinary practitioners;; Annotated bibliography on a certain topic; Reflective essay on one's learning and/or writing process. Simple, concise, direct: Pleading in plain English. Writing simple and direct prose is actually rather difficult.