Draft No. 4 - On the Writing Process McPhee John Paperback / softback
Draft No. 4 - On the Writing Process McPhee John Paperback / softback The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacherDraft No. In a series of playful,…
Specifikacia Draft No. 4 - On the Writing Process McPhee John Paperback / softback
Draft No. 4 - On the Writing Process McPhee John Paperback / softback
The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacherDraft No. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft.
In one essay, he considers the delicate art of getting sources to tell you what they might not otherwise reveal. McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work, subjecting them to wry scrutiny. In another, he discusses how to use flashback to place a bear encounter in a travel narrative while observing that "readers are not supposed to notice the structure.
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