Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing, 3rd edition

This bestselling brief supplementary text is for any course in which students write.

Writing with Style is storehouse of practical writing tips–written in a lively, conversational style. This text provides insight into: how to generate interesting ideas and get them down on paper; how to write a critical analysis; how to write a crisp opener; how to invigorate a dull style; how to punctuate with confidence; how to handle various conventions–and much more.   Trimble is readily accessible to first-year college students, yet sophisticated enough to delight a senior English Honors class. Unusually flexible, the book can function equally well as both a self-teaching text (in literature courses, etc.) and a companion text (in composition and journalism courses).

• Describes a remarkably effective method for generating ideas and converting them into coherent prose.
• Helps students overcome difficulty with generating ideas and developing these ideas in their writing.

• Summarizes important points in list form.

  • Facilitates using the book for review and quick reference.

• Enumerates over 200 tips for increasing the readability of one's writing.

  • Offers a plethora of techniques from which students can pick and choose.

• Supplements the author's advice with statements by professional writers.

  • Shows students how even professional writers follow the same process.

• Makes the use of analogies to explain abstract concepts.

  • Appeals to different learning styles to maximize understanding.

• Uses witty, memorable examples (not solemn, mechanical ones).

  • Helps engage students in learning to write.

• Includes examples from both professional and student writing.

  • Provides examples students can relate to and aspire to.

• Demonstrates the art of expository writing.

  • Instructors can introduce students to the many places where Trimble artfully illustrates his own points. Ex.___

An new chapter, Critical Analysis: Jousting with Mencken,  includes an essay by Mencken and student critical analyses of it, along with Trimble's discussion to provide an illustrative unit on this essential academic writing skill.

A new chapter, Dramatizing Your Prose, provides examples and discussion of how to inject the principles of good story-telling into expository prose to keep an audience engaged.

Fresh examples and updated help on taboos, punctuation, usage manuals, and other topics