英语写作手册：风格的要素

• 三諼愺

  2014-06-25
  5. Do not join independent clauses with a comma.
• 三諼愺

  2014-06-25
  4. Place a comma before a conjunction introducing an independent clause.
• 三諼愺

  2014-06-25
  3. Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas.
• 三諼愺

  2014-06-25
  2. In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each term except the last.
• 月之火

  2014-06-08
  The proper place in the sentence for the word or group of words that the writer desires to make most prominent is usually the end. The other prominent position in the sentence is the beginning. Any element in the sentence other than the subject becomes emphatic when placed first. To receive special emphasis, the subject of a sentence must take the position of the predicate.
• 牛语

  2013-10-04
  A colon tells the reader that what follows is closely related to the preceding clause. The colon has more effect than the comma, less power to separate than the semicolon, and more formality than the dash.
• earlybirdie

  2013-04-02
  Wondering what to do next, the clock struck twelve.
• 琴鍵上de小呔陽

  2014-05-09
  13. Make the paragraph the unit of composition.Thus, a brief description, a brief book review, a brief account of a single incident, a narrative merely outlining an action, the setting forth of a single idea — any one of these is best written in a single paragraph. After the paragraph has been written, examine it to see whether division will improve it.Ordinarily, however, a subject requires division into topics, each of which should be dealt with in a paragraph. The object of treating each topic in a paragraph by itself is, of course, to aid the reader.As a rule, single sentences should not be written or printed as paragraphs. An exception may be made of sentences of transition, indicating the relation between the parts of an exposition or argument. As a rule, begin each paragra...
• 琴鍵上de小呔陽

  2014-05-09
  12. Choose a suitable design and hold to it. The first principle of composition, therefore, is to foresee or determine the shape of what is to come and pursue that shape.A sonnet is built on a fourteen-line frame, each line containing five feet. Hence, sonneteers know exactly where they are headed, although they may not know how to get there.The more clearly the writer perceives the shape, the better are the chances of success.
• 牛语

  2013-10-04
  The increasing reluctance of the sun to rise, the extra nip in the breeze, the patter of shed leaves dropping — all the evidences of fall drifting into winter were clearer each day.
• 陈灼

  2021-04-19
  Full of belief, sustained and elevated by the power of purpose, armed with the rules of grammar, you are ready to exposure.
• 陈灼

  2021-04-19
  Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one. Start sniffing the air, or glancing at the Trend Machine, and you are as good as dead, although you may make a nice living.
• 陈灼

  2021-04-19
  Full of belief, sustained and elevated by the power of purpose, armed with the rules of grammar, you are ready to exposure.
• 陈灼

  2021-04-19
  Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one. Start sniffing the air, or glancing at the Trend Machine, and you are as good as dead, although you may make a nice living.
• 陈灼

  2021-04-19
  “Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.” This moral observation would have no place in a rule book were it not that style is the the writer, and therefore what you are, rather than what you know, will at last determine your style. If you write, you must believe — in the truth and worth of the scrawl, in the ability of the reader to receive and decode the message.
• 陈灼

  2021-04-19
  “Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.” This moral observation would have no place in a rule book were it not that style is the the writer, and therefore what you are, rather than what you know, will at last determine your style. If you write, you must believe — in the truth and worth of the scrawl, in the ability of the reader to receive and decode the message.
• Innisfree

  2012-09-23
  Careful writers, watchful for small conveniences, go which-hunting, remove the defining whiches, and by so doing improve their work.
• Shiva

  2012-05-05
  规则十四：使用主动语态：使得文章显得生动有力。 eg.There were a great number of dead lives lying on the ground 应为：Dead leaves covered the ground.规则十五：话要从正面说，避免使用沉闷单调，吞吞吐吐，含糊暧昧的语言。 例如：他认为学习拉丁语不是一种明智的利用时间的方法。 应为：他认为学习拉丁语浪费时间。规则十六：使用肯定、明确、具体的词语说话务必明确、肯定、具体，切忌笼统、含糊、抽象。例如：一段不佳的天气开始了。应为：一星期来天天下雨。例如：他获得应有的报酬之后很满意。应为：他一面把钱装入口袋一面咧着嘴笑。研究过写作技巧的人都同意：唤起并吸引读者注意力最可靠的办法是说话明确、肯定而具体。那些最伟大的作家--但丁、荷马、莎士比亚--之所以成功，是因为他们描述了至关重要的详情与细节，真是诗中有画。规则十七：省略不必要的词规则二十：把相关的词放在一起提示一：不要有意显露自己提示二：文章要写的自然提示三：写文章要有适当的构思提示四：多用名词与动词提示七：不要过甚其实提示八：避免使用修饰语提示十一：不要解释的太多提示十七：不要妄加评论