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Charles Euchner, "The Structure of Writing: A Short How-To Guide to Organize Your Stories, Essays, Reports, and More"
English | 2013 | ASIN: B00994N3FC | EPUB | pages: 72 | 0.5 mb
"The great book of Nature," Galileo said, "is written in mathematical language and the characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures."

You could say the same about writing. Every story, essay, description or analysis needs to take a clear form. Stories usually take the shape of a narrative arc. But you can use other shapes - lines, circles, and triangles - to structure a piece.
The Structure of Writing, Volume 7 in The Elements of Writing, offers the concise how-to guide for managing whole pieces of writing--from memos to reports, from articles to books.
Whatever you want to write, this concise ebook shows the way.
Step by step, you will learn how to:
* Make Every Piece a Journey
* Nest Journeys Inside Journeys
* Find the Right Shape
* Label Paragraphs to Chart the Journey
* Yo-Yo To Pace Your Writing
* Use Ones to Highlight Characters, Places, and Issues
* Use Twos to Establish Oppositions and Complements
* Use Threes to Show Dynamism and Complexity
* Use Lists of Four or More to Show Complexity
The Structure of Writing" offers a number of case studies to illustrate the skills you need to structure your piece, including Maureen Dowd's coverage of the White House, Andre Agassi's Open, Malcolm Gladwell's "The Terrazzo Jungle," Joe Eszterhas's Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse, William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters, and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried.
Each chapter also offers exercises you can do to master the skills of writing.
About the Author
Charles Euchner, an author and teacher, is the creator of The Elements of Writing.
Euchner is the author of books on the presidency (Losing the Peace, forthcoming), civil rights (Nobody Turn Me Around), baseball (The Last Nine Inningsand Little League, Big Dreams), urban affairs (Urban Policy Reconsidered and Playing the Field), and other topics.
A long time teacher-most recently at Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation-Euchner has taught writing at seminars to corporate and education clients as well as author groups.
Euchner holds a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University.