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Title: Reader Over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose
Author: GRAVES ROBERT
Format: PAPERBACK
Imprint: SEVEN STORIES PRESS
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
“First published in 1947, The Reader Over Your Shoulder remains required reading for anyone who wants to write more clearly and artfully. Editor Alan Hodge and I, Claudius author Robert Graves enjoin the writer to write as if oa crowd of his prospective readersa(were) looking over his shoulder,o anticipating possible questions and criticism. They identify the most common blunders writers make and lay out forty-one principles-twenty-five dealing with clarity of statement, sixteen with grace of expression-while showing us how to avoid them. Their insights are as fresh and their examples as entertaining seventy years later as they address such topics as oThe Use and Abuse of Official Englisho and oWhere Is Good English to Be Found?o In print again for the first time in decades, this lost gem is sure to take its rightful place alongside The Chicago Manual of Style and Strunk and White’s Elements of Style as an indispensable resource for writers of English prose.”
ISBN: 9781609807337
Pages: 290