[ExI] re good writing

[Dan]

On Sep 18, 2015, at 4:14 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This one was suggested to me by Stephen Pinker (hmm - watch it, namedropper):
> 
> Clear and Simple as the Truth, by Thomas and Turner, which includes samples of different styles.  Superb.
> 
> The Elements of Eloquence, by Mark Forsyth, which explains an amazing number of writing terms most of us never heard of:  zeugma, merism, hyperbaton, tricolon, and 20 something others, all of which you know but not by those names.  In his preface he tried to explain Shakespeare's writing.
> 
> His other books are good too.

A bit of a classic I recommend is:

http://www.amazon.com/Style-Anti-Textbook-Richard-A-Lanham/dp/1589880323

Lanham will clear out some drivel and get you thinking, IMO.

Regards,

Dan
 Sample my Kindle books via:
http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/
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