2nd Edition
Creating Texts An Introduction to the Study of Composition
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Creating Texts emphasises a practical approach to composition and enables students to understand what is involved in the creation of a text and to learn from the practice of other writers. Extensively rewritten and updated from Walter Nash's earlier volume, Designs in Prose , attention is paid to the general theory of composition, in both traditional and original terms, so that students are... Read more
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 - Beginning at Some Beginnings
2 - How Reading Teaches Writing
3 - About Paragraphs
4 - Charley's Tale, or The Gaps between Sentences
5 - Sentences: Penning and Parsing
6 - Plausible Words in Possible Places
7 - Writing to Participate: Literary Description
8 - Discourse as Dialogue: the New Technologies
Projects and Exercises
A - Compositions, free and prescribed
B - Analyses
C - Rewritings and Interventions
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 - Beginning at Some Beginnings
2 - How Reading Teaches Writing
3 - About Paragraphs
4 - Charley's Tale, or The Gaps between Sentences
5 - Sentences: Penning and Parsing
6 - Plausible Words in Possible Places
7 - Writing to Participate: Literary Description
8 - Discourse as Dialogue: the New Technologies
Projects and Exercises
A - Compositions, free and prescribed
B - Analyses
C - Rewritings and Interventions
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Walter Nash, David Stacey
