Notes Toward a New Rhetoric: Nine Essays for Teachers Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Notes Toward a New Rhetoric: Nine Essays for Teachers Book

Francis Christensen, an English professor at the University of Southern California, solved the mystery of how the great writers write. Through careful analysis of literally thousands of works of fiction and nonfiction, he discovered how professional authors arrange all the elements to deliver those three fundamental requirements of all good writing: specifics, organization, and style. The secret of the sentence, Christensen realized, is found not within the main clause, but outside of it, in the phrases and clauses that he called "free modifiers." He devised a simple yet powerful numbering system that shows how those parts of the sentence, and by extension the paragraph, may be explained and taught to others. That numbering system forms the foundation of what has since come to be known read more...
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