The reader over your shoulder

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The Reader over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose Revised Edition by Robert Graves (Author)Cited by:   "The Reader Over Your Shoulder is subtitled A Handbook for Writers of English Prose, but it is also an inspiration for readers.

I don't know any other book in which expository prose is read so seriously, carefully, helpfully.4/5(3). In late OctoberRobert Graves wrote to Alan Hodge: “I have begun a new book, about English.” Graves and Hodge had recently completed a social history of the between-wars period called The Long Week-End.

Now they embarked on this new project, “a handbook for writers of English Prose,” to be called The Reader Over Your : Seven Stories Press. "The Reader Over Your Shoulder" is the most painstaking and explicit guide ever published on the craft of revising one's prose/5.

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Solutions to the common problems encountered in writing English prose are discussed and illustrated in critical examinations of the work of prominent writers/5(13).

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The Reader Over Your Shoulder Robert Graves, Alan Hodge. A Handbook for Writers of English Prose. This book, which preceded William Zinnser's 'On Writing Well' () by more than 30 years, is likewise considered a classic of writing instruction.

You can write a book review and share your experiences. That book transformed the teaching of literature in the universities by showing that the governing assumptions about reading and interpretation were mostly wrong.

If our educational systems were sound, The Reader Over Your Shoulder could have the same effect on the teaching of expository writing by showing what the reading of such prose entails.

The first book is not easy to read but is really fun and so well-written it sings--"The King's English" by H.W. Fowler and (Don't accept any interloper's revision of the book!) The second book, and it will give a writer courage,is the present one: "The Reader over Your Shoulder," Graves and Hodge.

The Long Weekend/The Reader Over Your Shoulder book. Read 2 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. This contemporary edition makes avai /5(2). Main The Reader Over Your Shoulder.

The Reader Over Your Shoulder Robert Graves, Alan Hodge. A Handbook for Writers of English Prose. Different scan and edition from that/those at Categories: Literature\\Prose You can write a book review and share your experiences.

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