How to prepare essays, lectures, articles, books, speeches and letters; with hints on writing for the press
Автор:Eustace H. Miles Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 96 ISBN: 123659973, 123659973X, 123659973X This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...of Monotony. If, on the other hand, the Writer or Speaker is perpetually changing his Rhythm, and the length of his Sentences and Paragraphs, unnecessarily, then he will be going to the other extreme of needless Variety. Here, as elsewhere, the 'mean' must needs depend on a number of conditions, such as the subject, the Writer or Speaker, the Aim, and the audience. To change words unnecessarily is a great mistake. On the other hand, Tautology is to be avoided. In the two sentences which I have just written, the reader would do well to decide for himself whether I ought to have changed the words as I did, or not. In the sentence from Froebel, on p. 325, the change is certainly unnecessary. Want of connexion, either between one Paragraph and another, or between one...
