{"id":3936,"date":"2019-03-30T14:20:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T07:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2019-03-30T14:22:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T07:22:40","slug":"how-to-write-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/?p=3936","title":{"rendered":"How to write well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mulinet1.li.mahidol.ac.th\/record=b1487503a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3884 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/66169-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>AUTHOR<\/strong> :\u00a0 De Lisle, Tim, 1962-<\/p>\n<p><strong>CALL NO<\/strong> :\u00a0 PN145 D354h 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>IMPRINT<\/strong> :\u00a0\u00a0 [Wiltshire, England] : Connell Publishing, c2018<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Writing matters. We all do it, and we all admire it when it\u2019s done well. It doesn\u2019t just express us; it represents us. We write to connect with other people \u2013 to make them laugh, or cry, or think. We also write to work out what we think ourselves: there\u2019s nothing like it for concentrating the mind.\u00a0 So what\u2019s the secret of a stylish essay, or story, or email? How do you make your sentences sparkle? Dorothy Parker had a point when she said that writing \u201cis the art of applying the ass to the seat\u201d, but in this slim volume, a leading editor who is also a pop critic and sportswriter shows you much fun you can have while sharpening your pen. Tim de Lisle\u2019s book is packed with good, simple advice: be clear, be concise, be vivid, be organised. In a few breezy chapters, he explains the secrets of good writing, and along the way he quotes dozens of great lines, from the plays of Shakespeare to the journalism of Caitlin Moran. \u201cWriting,\u201d he says, \u201cis like dancing, in that you can tell instantly if someone is good at it. But it\u2019s also like driving in that it can be learnt.\u201d Spend a couple of hours with this book and you\u2019ll learn things that will help you in years to come.<\/p>\n<p>Source :\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Write-Well-sentences-sparkle\/dp\/1911187902\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Write-Well-sentences-sparkle\/dp\/1911187902<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUTHOR :\u00a0 De Lisle, Tim, 1962- CALL NO :\u00a0 PN145 D354h 2018 IMPRINT :\u00a0\u00a0 [Wiltshire, England] : Connell Publishing, c2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[252,281],"class_list":["post-3936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-book-releases","tag-essay","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3938,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions\/3938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}