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Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com In her book Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse (1974), Lisa Jardine argues that "Bacon's Essays fall squarely under the heading of presentation or 'method of discourse.' They are didactic, in Agricola's sense of presenting knowledge to someone in a form in which it may be believed and assimilated. . . . Basically these essays communicate precepts for the guidance of personal conduct in public affairs, based on Bacon's own political experience."
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Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com A master of invective and irony, essayist William Hazlitt was one of the great prose stylists of the 19th century. In "On Familiar Style" (originally published in the London Magazine and reprinted in Table Talk, 1822), Hazlitt explains his preference for "plain words and popular modes of construction."
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Novelist Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is one of America's great humorists and social critics. In "Advice to Youth," a talk he delivered to a group of young girls, Twain turns the conventional moral lecture on its head.
English as a Global Language: Imitating the Style of the "Spectator," by Benjamin Franklin5/14/2013
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin was also a renowned newspaper publisher and journalist. In this excerpt from his Autobiography, Franklin describes an experiment in stylistic imitationthat would have been quite familiar to students of rhetoric in ancient Greece and Rome.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Novelist Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., who died in April 2007 at the age of 84, was one of the most playfully distinctive stylists in modern American literature. He also had some useful stylistic advice to pass along.
In 1982, Vonnegut wrote a short piece for the International Paper Company titled simply, "How to Write with Style." He begins the essay by considering why we should strive to improve our writing style:
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Other writers agree: that wise guy of English prose, Jonathan Swift, knew a thing or two about good style:
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Some call it gobbledygook. Others refer to it as gibberish, drivel, claptrap, or mumbo jumbo. Almost a century ago, in his lecture seriesOn the Art of Writing (reprinted by Dover in 2006), Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch called it "sham prose"--or jargon.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com A mother tells her infant, that two and two make four; the child remembers the proposition, and is able to count four to all the purposes of life, till the course of his education brings him among philosophers who fright him from his former knowledge, by telling him, that four is a certain aggregate of units; that all numbers being only the repetition of an unit, which, though not a number itself, is the parent, root, or original of all number, four is the denomination assigned to a certain number of such repetitions. The only danger is, lest, when he first hears these dreadful sounds, the pupil should run away; if he has but the courage to stay till the conclusion, he will find that, when speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Samuel Johnson knew a thing or two about language and style. For more than three years the British author almost single-handedly wrote and edited a biweekly journal, The Rambler. After completing his master work, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), he returned to journalism by contributing essays and reviews to the Literary Magazine and The Idler, where the following essay appeared in issue number 36, dated December 23, 1758.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Definition:The use of laughter as the oral equivalent of punctuation at the end of a spoken phrase or sentence.
The term punctuation effect was coined by neuroscientist Robert R. Provine in his book Laughter: A Scientific Investigation (Viking, 2000). See Examples and Observations, below. |
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