Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
On Becoming Articulate 1
Rhetorical Form and Design
5
Lesson 1: T. S Eliot
6
Lesson 2: Margaret Atwood 9
Lesson 3: Ernest Hemingway 11
Lesson 4: Cormac McCarthy 14
Lesson 5: John Steinbeck 16
Lesson 6: Norman Mailer 18
Lesson 7: Edith Wharton 20
Lesson 8: E. B. White 22
Lesson 9: J. M. Coetzee
24
Lesson 10: John Steinbeck 26
Lesson 11: Barbara Kingsolver
28
Lesson 12: Joshua Ferris
30
Lesson 13: Ken Kesey 32
Lesson 14: Martin Luther King, Jr 34
Lesson 15: Henry James
36
Lesson 16: Barack Obama 39
Lesson 17: Cintra Wilson 41
The Well-Spoken Vocabulary 43
The Seven Rhetorical Sins
47
How This Book Works 51
Preamble 53
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus 55
200 Well-Spoken Alternatives to Common Words and
Phrases 384
About the Author 392
Tom Heehler is a sociolinguistics major at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA). A full-time student, he spends his off-campus hours aboard the Nostromo, currently moored in Boston Harbor
"This is your guide to eloquence — replacing ordinary words with
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Award-winning author of Forgetting English
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