Frank L Cioffi: 2 books
The Imaginative Argument
A Practical Manifesto for Writers - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
More than merely a writing text, The Imaginative Argument offers writers instruction on how to use their imaginations to improve their prose. Cioffi shows writers how they can enliven argument--the organizing rubric of all persuasive writing--by drawing on emotion, soul, and creativity, the wellsprings...
One Day in the Life of the English Language
A Microcosmic Usage Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Generations of student writers have been subjected to usage handbooks that proclaim, "This is the correct form. Learn it"—books that lay out a grammar, but don't inspire students to use it. By contrast, this antihandbook handbook, presenting some three hundred sentences drawn from the...