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Elements of Expression : Putting Thoughts into Words

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Elements of Expression : Putting Thoughts into Words Paperback - 2012

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Author: Plotnik, Arthur
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Title Elements of Expression : Putting Thoughts into Words
Author Plotnik, Arthur
Binding Paperback
Edition 2nd Revised & en
Condition Used - Good
Pages 240
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Start Publishing LLC
Publication date 2012-06
Bookseller's Inventory # 4624056-6
ISBN 9781936740147 / 1936740141
Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
Dimensions 7 x 5 x 1 in (17.78 x 12.70 x 2.54 cm)
Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
Library of Congress subjects Authorship, Rhetoric
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012006242
Dewey Decimal Code 808.042
Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

More than ever in this completely updated edition, The Elements of Expression helps word users "light up the cosmos or the written page or the face across the table" as they seek the radiance of expressiveness--the vivid expression of thoughts, feelings, and observations. Nothing kills radiance like the murky, generic language dominating today's talk, airwaves, and posts. It tugs at our every sentence, but using it to express anything beyond the ordinary is like flapping the tongue to escape gravity.

The Elements of Expression offers an adventurous and inspiring flight into words that truly share what's percolating in our minds. Here writers, presenters, students, bloggers--even well intentioned "Mad Men"--will discover language to convey precise feelings, move audiences, delight and persuade. No snob or scold, the acclaimed word-maven Arthur Plotnik explores the full range of expressiveness, from playful "tough talk" to finely wrought literature, with hundreds of rousing examples. Confessing that we are all "like a squid in its ink" when first groping for luminous expression, he shines his amiable wit on the elements leading, ultimately, to language of "fissionable intensity."

About the author

Arthur Plotnik is a versatile author with a distinguished background in editing and publishing. Among his seven previous books (not to mention 22 pseudonymous potboilers early in his career) are The Elements of Editing and The Elements of Expression, both Book-of-the-Month Club selections, and the best-selling Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Bold, Contemporary Style. His articles, op-eds, and literary pieces have been published widely, including his columns in The Writer magazine, on whose editorial board he serves.

Plotnik studied under Philip Roth in the Iowa Writers Workshop, was a reporter for the Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union, and after earning a second graduate degree, worked as a Library of Congress staffer in Washington and magazine editor in New York. He received numerous honors and awards as a long-time editor and publisher with the American Library Association in Chicago. He lives in that city with his wife and an avalanche tumble of jottings for Better than Great.

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