Ready Reference Handbook Writing Revising Editing Author:Jack Dodds Note for Students — Writers, like painters, learn their art by practice, whether sketching perspectives, playing musical scales, or writing exercises in a booklet like this. By doing these exercises you'll train your eye and ear to recognize well-crafted sentences, you'll learn how to create them yourself, and you'll acquire a precise vocabulary ... more »to help you describe your writing and talk about it with others.« less