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Richard Daniel Altick. Talking the Language of the Audience In Chapter 1 we pointed out that every writer who wishes to be understood must take care to select words which connote the same thing to his audience generally that they do to ...
Richard Daniel Altick. Talking the Language of the Audience In Chapter 1 we pointed out that every writer who wishes to be understood must take care to select words which connote the same thing to his audience generally that they do to ...
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... audience , react most strongly . ( b ) Write a short essay commenting upon the style of this book . Is the style unnecessarily difficult ? Could the author have used simpler language to say the same things ? Does he " talk down " to his ...
... audience , react most strongly . ( b ) Write a short essay commenting upon the style of this book . Is the style unnecessarily difficult ? Could the author have used simpler language to say the same things ? Does he " talk down " to his ...
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... audience — say , the audience to whom the Reader's Digest , Newsweek , or a best - selling novel is addressed - is somewhere be- tween twenty and thirty words . This means , in effect , that the average sentence is longer and more ...
... audience — say , the audience to whom the Reader's Digest , Newsweek , or a best - selling novel is addressed - is somewhere be- tween twenty and thirty words . This means , in effect , that the average sentence is longer and more ...
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Diction | 55 |
Other Determinants of Tone | 130 |
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