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What Is Good Writing?
Huck, Geoffrey (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, York University)
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What Is Good Writing?
Huck, Geoffrey (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, York University)
This book answers the title question by drawing on empirical results from linguistics and the other cognitive sciences. The author argues that good writing is fluent writing, where fluency in writing is similar to fluency in speech, in that both are naturally derived from motivated participation in a language community.
Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Preface Prologue Part I Conceptual Introduction1. Historical Background2. A Cognitive Approach to Good Writing Part II Fluency3. Constructional Fluency 4. Pragmatic Fluency 5. Narrative Fluency 6. Graphemic Fluency Part III Form & Content 7. Figurative Language8. Surprise, Repetition, and Complexity 9. Verbal Art and Craft Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography EndnotesIndexReview Quotes:"An eloquent piece of scholarship, grounded in cognitive science and linguistics, with the potential to change the field of composition studies." --William O'Grady, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Biographical Note: Geoffrey J. Huck is Associate Professor in the Writing Department at York University. He is co-author of Ideology and Linguistic Theory: Noam Chomsky and the Deep Structure Debates and co-editor of Syntax and Semantics 20: Discontinuous Constituency.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 15, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780190212957 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 232 |
| Dimensions | 243 × 167 × 24 mm · 430 g |