What Is Good Writing? [electronic resource].
Huck, Geoffrey.
There was a time when good writing would be defined simply by adverting to a few literary classics. That kind of strategy is less helpful these days, when so many different styles and voices are clamoring for attention. 'What Is Good Writing?' sets the terms for a contemporary debate on writing achievement by drawing on empirical research in linguistics and the other cognitive sciences that shed light on the development of fluency in language generally.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Prologue""; ""Part One | Conceptual Introduction""; ""1. Historical Background""; ""2. A Cognitive Approach to Good Writing""; ""Part Two | Fluency""; ""3. Constructional Fluency""; ""4. Pragmatic Fluency""; ""5. Narrative Fluency""; ""6. Graphemic Fluency""; ""Part Three | Form and Content""; ""7. Figurative Language""; ""8. Surprise, Repetition, and Complexity""; ""9. Verbal Art and Craft""; ""Conclusion""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
There was a time when good writing would be defined simply by adverting to a few literary classics. That kind of strategy is less helpful these days, when so many different styles and voices are clamoring for attention. 'What Is Good Writing?' sets the terms for a contemporary debate on writing achievement by drawing on empirical research in linguistics and the other cognitive sciences that shed light on the development of fluency in language generally.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 26, 2015).
Fluency (Language learning)
Rhetoric
Speech acts
Language and languages
Writing
Cognitive grammar
Psycholinguistics
Languages & Literatures
Philology & Linguistics