{"product_id":"9781605018584","title":"Write It Right- A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The author's main purpose in this book is to teach precision in writing;   and of good writing (which, essentially, is clear thinking made visible)   precision is the point of capital concern. It is attained by choice of the word   that accurately and adequately expresses what the writer has in mind, and by   exclusion of that which either denotes or connotes something else. As Quintilian   puts it, the writer should so write that his reader not only may, but must,   understand. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFew words have more than one literal and serviceable meaning, however   many metaphorical, derivative, related, or even unrelated, meanings   lexicographers may think it worth while to gather from all sorts and conditions   of men, with which to bloat their absurd and misleading dictionaries. This   actual and serviceable meaning—not always determined by derivation, and seldom   by popular usage—is the one affirmed, according to his light, by the author of   this little manual of solecisms. Narrow etymons of the mere scholar and loose   locutions of the ignorant are alike denied a standing.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e- Excerpted from \"\u003c\/em\u003eWrite It Right, A Little Blacklist of Literary   Faults\" \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MobileReference","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138780676336,"sku":"9781605018584","price":0.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781605018584_p0.jpg?v=1763828691","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781605018584","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}