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In revising prose, richard lanham, a professor of english at ucla, invented an easy touse method for making your writing clearer and more concise. Opening slow openings delay and weaken the main action verb. Lanham is the author of numerous books on writing, including style. This book, intended as a supplement for any course that requires writing, offers a clear, stepbystep system for creating straightforward, concise, intelligible and readable prose. I first encountered revising prose 22 years ago in a college writing course, and mr. It was published by pearson and has a total of 176 pages in the book. In revising prose, richard lanham lambastes writers for composing sentences that uhave been assembled from strings of prepositional. Revising prose 5th edition 5th edition rent 9780321441690. The paramedic method for revising prose adapted from. I adapted this editing exercise from richard lanhams wonderful paramedic method.
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