Author: Marshall Train BigelowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Mistakes in Writing English, and how to Avoid Them
Author: Marshall Train BigelowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
How Not to Write a Novel
Author: Howard MittelmarkPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061862894
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"What do you think of my fiction book writing?" the aspiring novelist extorted. "Darn," the editor hectored, in turn. "I can not publish your novel! It is full of what we in the business call 'really awful writing.'" "But how shall I absolve this dilemma? I have already read every tome available on how to write well and get published!" The writer tossed his head about, wildly. "It might help," opined the blonde editor, helpfully, "to ponder how NOT to write a novel, so you might avoid the very thing!" Many writing books offer sound advice on how to write well. This is not one of those books. On the contrary, this is a collection of terrible, awkward, and laughably unreadable excerpts that will teach you what to avoid—at all costs—if you ever want your novel published. In How Not to Write a Novel, authors Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman distill their 30 years combined experience in teaching, editing, writing, and reviewing fiction to bring you real advice from the other side of the query letter. Rather than telling you how or what to write, they identify the 200 most common mistakes unconsciously made by writers and teach you to recognize, avoid, and amend them. With hilarious "mis-examples" to demonstrate each manuscript-mangling error, they'll help you troubleshoot your beginnings and endings, bad guys, love interests, style, jokes, perspective, voice, and more. As funny as it is useful, this essential how-NOT-to guide will help you get your manuscript out of the slush pile and into the bookstore.
Mistakes Writing English, How to Avoid Them (Classic Reprint)
Author: Marshall T. BigelowPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332513710
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
"Mistakes Writing English and How to Avoid Them" is a text authored by Marshall T. Bigelow and is intended as an instructional guide to the improvement of one's English skills. "With the exception of Wordsworth, there is not one celebrated author of this day who has written two pages consecutively without some flagrant impropriety in the grammar." It is this quote that Bigelow chooses to open his work with, a quote that demonstrates the state of the English language, at least as interpreted by some authors. The purpose of "Mistakes Writing English and How to Avoid Them" is to offer teachers and scholars a guide to improving their English by demonstrating some of the most common grammatical errors. The book is divided into easily digestible sections, each of which handles a different grammatical concept. Topics covered include the proper use of the article, pronouns and antecedents, the infinitive mood, use of the participle, conjunctions, prepositions, and much more. A three-part appendix sees several additional topics discussed, and the book is concluded by an index. Marshall T. Bigelow has created a thorough and accessible guide to improving one's English. The book is not intended to be a completely exhaustive overview of grammar, but rather an examination of the most common errors of the language. Many of the examples provided were lifted directly from texts that Bigelow has been responsible for editing, and demonstrate that even professional writers are not immune from making grammatical errors. "Mistakes Writing English and How to Avoid Them" is the sort of book that can benefit everybody that endeavors to read it. For individuals interested in learning how to avoid common errors and become a better writer, Marshall T. Bigelow's guide is essential. Clearly written and well presented, this work is highly recommended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Mistakes in Writing English, and how to Avoid Them ...
Author: Marshall Train BigelowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composition (Language arts)
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Mistakes in Writing English, and how to Avoid Them ...
Author: Marshall Train BigelowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Mistakes in Writing English, and how to Avoid Them, Etc
Author: Marshall Train BIGELOWPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
MISTAKES WRITING ENGLISH, HOW TO AVOID THEM
Author: MARSHALL T. BIGELOWPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033401255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes
Author: Jack BickhamPublisher: Writer's Digest Books
ISBN: 9780898798210
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes When you write fiction, you march onto a minefield. This book gives you a map. Oh, what tricky terrain you're traveling! You must reckon with: Character, Conflict, Point of View, Dialogue, Editors, Editors, and Editors, who--by returning stories they see as problem-plagued--can burst your hopes of publication. Where are the problems? Editors rarely take the time to map them out, so Jack Bickham has. In this book, he spotlights the 38 most common fiction writing land mines--writing mistakes that can turn even dynamite story ideas into slush pile rejects. And he guides you in overcoming them. In to-the-point style, he shows you how to: conquer procrastination--and put ink on paper regularly dump wimpy characters--and build characters ready to act look for trouble--and create conflicts for your characters cut coincidence--and put better-than-life logic into fiction escape the fog--and find and stick to your story's direction free feelings--and fire your fiction with passion and emotion In short, Bickham helps you take a giant step toward publication. Read this book. Strengthen your writing. And start setting off explosions where they belong: on the sales charts.
Mistakes in Writing English, and How to Avoid Them; for the Use of All Who Teach, Write, Or Speak the Language
Author: Marshall Train BigelowPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230358000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xvii. conjunctions. 83. Beginning paragraphs or sentences with conjunctions should be avoided. The conjunctions and, nor, or, and others strictly connective, are often needlessly thus made to begin a sentence, more especially and. In many cases, the and is useless and may be omitted, and where it is necessary the sentence can often be joined with the preceding one. A disjunctive, like but, may sometimes be necessary at the beginning of the sentence, and in an animated or easy style it is perhaps unobjectionable to begin one with and. It is not easy to give examples, without taking up too much space, as whole sentences would be required to show the connection. Any one can find plenty of examples in his every-day reading, and can judge for himself as to their propriety or impropriety. 84. The words reason and because should not be used together, the word because meaning "for that reason," and thus being redundant; as, "Because That Rousseau had given an equally beautiful picture was no reason why Goethe should not repeat it." "The other will fail, not for any apparent reason but because except that the one loves the child from the beginning." "The reasons of appeal were because that the consent of the parents had not been obtained." "The renson I ask you to do this is because that you can do it so much better than I." 85. Other common errors in the use of conjunctions are the following. Without for unless, but for; as, "Without Unless the grammatical form of.a word can be recognized at a glance, little progress can be made in reading the language." "You will never live to my age without you keep yourself in breath with exercise." "This veteran of forty campaigns would have fallen into the enemy's hands without...
Common Mistakes at Proficiency...and How to Avoid Them
Author: Julie MoorePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521606837
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Focuses on the real mistakes students make in the Proficiency exam and shows how to avoid them.