Sheridan Baker (1) (1918–2000)
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- Geboortedatum
- 1918-07-10
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2000-06-30
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Santa Rosa, California, USA
- Opleiding
- University of California, Berkeley
- Beroepen
- professor emeritus
- Organisaties
- University of Michigan
United States Navy (WWII)
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The complete stylist and handbook door Sheridan Warner Baker
Outstanding textbook on writing. I have just had an opportunity to reread it, actually study it and I am truly amazed at the interesting new information Baker adds. It is itself well written and one feels that in using this book one has a personal teacher interest in his or her progress.
Addresses the "problems of exposition" by stating the Big Ideas (find your Thesis, your Structure {beginning, middle, end}), and then proceeding to the elements (your Paragraphs, your Words, the heart of rhetoric).
Concludes with a Handbook of Grammar and Glossary of Usage, ie. un sens plus aux mots de la tribu.
This is rhetoric primarily for freshman English, but it has also proved useful to the advanced student and to many others who have found themselves facing a blank page and the problems of exposition. (Preface, January 1969)
Style in writing is something like style in a car, a woman, or a Greek temple--a kind of linear mastery of materials that stands out from the landscape and compels a second look. (Chapter 1, Thesis)… (meer)
Concludes with a Handbook of Grammar and Glossary of Usage, ie. un sens plus aux mots de la tribu.
This is rhetoric primarily for freshman English, but it has also proved useful to the advanced student and to many others who have found themselves facing a blank page and the problems of exposition. (Preface, January 1969)
Style in writing is something like style in a car, a woman, or a Greek temple--a kind of linear mastery of materials that stands out from the landscape and compels a second look. (Chapter 1, Thesis)… (meer)
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