How to Speak and Write Correctly info
- Version: Unabridged
- Reader: Various/English
- Format: MP3 Audio CD
- Tracks / Chapters: 16 Chapters
- Total running time: 05:33:40
The classic writing manual, How to Speak and Write Correctly, ranks right up there next to The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. Joseph Devlin chronicles the evolution of the English language and gives sage grammatical and writing style advice. The book includes chapters on the essentials of English grammar, literary concepts like mood, figurative language, and voice, punctuation, syntax, and style, and details common writing mistakes even great writers sometimes make. It also contains advice on how to write in various mediums, including newspapers and letters. This advice, of course, seems somewhat outdated 100 years later, yet the principles behind the construction of a clear and grammatical piece of writing remain the same. How to S