Write It Real: A Practical Guide for the Prose Writer (Paperback)

Foreword ? Preface ? Acknowledgments ? List of Abbreviations ? Getting Ready to Write ? Own Your Words ? There Is No Such Thing as Writing ? Write for the Reader, Not Yourself ? First Draft, Rest, and Revision ? Writing’s Magic Pill: The Paragraph ? Beginning-Middle-Ending ? Transitions: Getting from "Here" to "There" ? Grammar and Punctuation: Accidence and Analysis ? Making Your Case: The Rhetorical Modes of Exposition ? The Last Word ? Index.