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The New Oxford Guide to Writing
Covers the writing process, the structure of essays, exposition, sentences, diction, description, narration, and punctuation.
The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing
Whether you're composing a letter, writing a school thesis, or starting a novel, The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing offers expert advice on how to think more creatively, how to conjure up ideas from scratch, and how to express those ideas clearly and elegantly. No matter where you find yourself in the writing process - from the daunting blank page to the rough draft that needs shaping to the small but important questions of punctuation - you'll find what you need in this one handy, all-inclusive volume.
Writing Prose
Writing Prose is designed to acquaint students with the techniques of good prose through a range of writing samples including classics, such as Swift's 'A Modest Proposal', as well as contemporary essays by lesser-known authors. Ranging in length from short paragraphs to complete essays, the readings are grouped according to traditional rhetorical categories--exposition, argument, description, and narration, along with definition, persuasion, and 'writing about writing'.
Understanding Contemporary Strategy
Understanding Contemporary Strategy provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of modern strategy. Covering all the main issues in the field, the book explores the major themes through a combination of classical and modern strategic theory, history and current practice. The book is split into three main sections: Definition and Context : including discussion of the human, technological, intelligence, ethical and grand-strategic dimensions Strategy in the Geographic Environments: land, sea, air and space Contemporary Strategic Challenges: terrorism, insurgency and nuclear strategy. Each chapter presents the reader with a succinct summary of the topic, but also provides a challenging analysis of current issues, supporting students with pedagogical features such as suggested further reading, boxed case studies and study questions. This book will be essential reading for upper-level students of strategic studies, war studies, military history and international security.
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"Liberty to the Downtrodden"
Thomas L. Kane (1822-1883), a crusader for antislavery, women's rights, and the downtrodden, rose to prominence in his day as the most ardent and persuasive defender of Mormons' religious liberty. Though not a Mormon, Kane sought to defend the much-reviled group from the "Holy War" waged against them by evangelical America. His courageous personal intervention averted a potentially catastrophic bloody conflict between federal troops and Mormon settlers in the now nearly forgotten Utah War of 1857-58. Drawing on extensive, newly available archives, this book is the first to tell the full story of Kane's extraordinary life. The book illuminates his powerful Philadelphia family, his personal life and eccentricities, his reform achievements, his place in Mormon history, and his career as a Civil War general. Further, the book revises previous understandings of nineteenth-century reform, showing how Kane and likeminded others fused Democratic Party ideology, anti-evangelicalism, and romanticism.
Military Logistics and Strategic Performance
This book explains why logistical planning is studied by military professionals and uses case studies to bring home its importance.
Writing Prose
This edition offers a wide range of writing samples that focus on specific techniques and problems of composition. Sections are grouped under traditional rhetorical headings: Exposition; Definition; Persuasion; Description; Description of Character, Narration; Beginnings and Closings; Personal Writing; Writing about Literature; and Style. The editors follow each section first with questions that focus on precise matters of purpose, organization, sentence style, and diction, and second with exercises that encourage students to apply what they have learned to their own writing. A brief headnote introduces each section, identifying the author, summarizing the context of the passage, and indicating the principal writing techniques. In addition, precise assignments about dictation and structure follow each selection.
