Revising Prose

Richard A. Lanham

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 126 pages

This remarkable little book, intended as a supplement for any course that requires writing, models a clear, step-by-step system for creating straight-forward, concise, intelligible and readable prose.

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User Review  - Murphy-Jacobs - LibraryThing

An essential and no nonsense guide to any kind of writing, but especially useful to the person who wants to communicate in the "real world" -- that is, in business, academia, or personal ...

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User Review  - RDGlibrary - LibraryThing

Your writing will improve exponentially if you apply Lanham's principles during the revision process. Lanham patiently describes each technique and convincingly explains its value.

Contents

• CHAPTER: 9
• CHAPTER THREE: 25
• CHAPTER FOUR: 50

About the author

Born on April 26, 1936, Richard Lanham was educated at Yale, receiving a B.A. in 1956, an M.A. in 1960, and a Ph.D. in 1963. After serving in the U.S. Army for two years, Lanham worked briefly for the Smithsonian Institution and then took a position teaching English at Dartmouth College. In 1965, he moved to the University of California at Los Angeles, eventually becoming the executive director of writing programs. He was a National Endowment for the Humanities senior fellow in 1973-74. Lanham is the author of numerous books on writing, including Style: An Anti-textbook, The Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance, Revising Prose, Revising Business Prose, Analyzing Prose, and Literacy and the Survival of Humanism. He has also contributed articles to English Literary Renaissance, Modern Language Quarterly, English Studies, and other journals. Richard Lanham married Carol Dana in 1957.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Revising Prose; Scribner English Series
• Author: Richard A. Lanham
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jul 15, 2008
• ISBN: 0684159872, 9780684159874
• Length: 126 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; Literary Collections / General