Write It Right: The Celebrated Cynic's Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for 21st-Century Readers

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Title: Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Release Date: May 29, 2004 [EBook #12474]

Language: English

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WRITE IT RIGHT

A LITTLE BLACKLIST OF LITERARY FAULTS

BY AMBROSE BIERCE

1909

AIMS AND THE PLAN

The author’s main purpose in this book is to teach precision in writing; and of good writing (which, essentially, is clear thinking made visible) precision is the point of capital concern. It is attained by choice of the word that accurately and adequately expresses what the writer has in mind, and by exclusion of that which either denotes or connotes something else. As Quintilian puts it, the writer should so write that his reader not only may, but must, understand.

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