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Voice & vision : a guide to writing history and other serious nonfiction / Stephen J. Pyne.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.Description: x, 314 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780674033306 (alk. paper)
  • 0674033302
Other title:
  • Voice and vision
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808/.02
LOC classification:
  • PN 145 P997v 2009
Contents:
In the beginning, words -- Art and craft -- Rules of engagement -- Nonfiction as writing -- Voice-- -- --and vision -- Designing -- Plotting -- Transitioning -- Dramatizing -- Editing I -- Prose -- Character -- Setting -- Point of view -- Showing and telling -- Editing II -- Figures of speech -- Technical information -- Questions of scale -- Theory and practice -- Writing lives.
Summary: Voice and Vision is for those who wish to understand the ways in which literary considerations can enhance nonfiction writing. At issue is not whether writing is scholarly or popular, narrative or analytical, but whether it is good. --from publisher description
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 145 P997v 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000111240

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-308) and index.

In the beginning, words -- Art and craft -- Rules of engagement -- Nonfiction as writing -- Voice-- -- --and vision -- Designing -- Plotting -- Transitioning -- Dramatizing -- Editing I -- Prose -- Character -- Setting -- Point of view -- Showing and telling -- Editing II -- Figures of speech -- Technical information -- Questions of scale -- Theory and practice -- Writing lives.

Voice and Vision is for those who wish to understand the ways in which literary considerations can enhance nonfiction writing. At issue is not whether writing is scholarly or popular, narrative or analytical, but whether it is good. --from publisher description

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