TY - BOOK AU - Hoffman,Gary AU - Hoffman,Glynis TI - Adios, Strunk and White SN - 0937363200 (pbk.) AV - PE 1408 H699a 2003 U1 - 808/.042 22 PY - 2003/// CY - Huntington Beach, Calif. PB - Verve Press KW - English language KW - Rhetoric KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Idioma en Ingles KW - Retórica KW - Manuales KW - Estilo KW - Style KW - Academic writing N1 - Includes index; The Church of the English Teacher -- Writing Before Reading -- Neither a Trade Book Nor a Textbook Be -- The Strunk and White Tradition -- 1. Style: Style Before Structure -- Flow: Ways to Speed and Smooth -- Freighting -- Telescoping -- Pause: Ways to Slow and Emphasize -- Very Short Sentence -- Melted-together Words -- Hieroglyphics -- Super-literalism -- Fusion: Ways to Spark and Compress -- Slang Tang -- Line-ups -- Break-ups -- Mix Masters -- Opt: Ways to Wield Point of View -- Personalizing Lens -- Humbling Lens -- Distancing Lens -- 2. Form: Structure as Shuffled Forms -- Time Warping: Ways to Narrate -- Pulsing the Tense -- Splitting the Second -- Anecdoting -- Problem Making -- Encircling: Ways to Define -- Thesauruscoping -- Cliche-Busting -- Stress Testing -- Quote Sandwiching -- Pie Slicing -- Bursting: Ways to Disarm -- Devil's Advice -- Mocking -- Trojan Horse -- Sincerely Yours -- Punching Up: Ways to Intensify -- Echoing -- Netting -- Q&A-ing -- Masquerading -- Raising the Dead -- Transitioning: Ways to Combine -- Twist Ties -- Captions -- Double Exposures -- Thirteen Ways -- 3. Headwork: Strong and Weak Noodling -- Peel: Ways to Seek Meaning -- Inductive Analysis -- Deductive Analysis -- Claim Cast -- Infer-styling -- Scrub: Ways to Purge Deceit -- Facial Pack: Euphemism -- War Paint: Euphemism -- Jousters: Logical Fallacies -- Mentals: Logical Fallacies -- Baste: Ways to Research -- Seasoning -- Drenching -- Presenting ER -