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A Book of Exposition
Homer Heath Nugent
137 pages~2 hr 44 min read22 chapters$4.99
How do you explain a machine, a body, or a beetle so clearly a reader simply sees it? Nugent gathers model expositions: Sir Arthur Keith on the levers of the human body, Philip Dodge on the Mergenthaler Linotype, a naturalist on the pea weevil. A masterclass in making the technical vivid. Learn to write so understanding feels effortless.
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22 chapters
- 1A BOOK OF EXPOSITION
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4INTRODUCTION
- 5THE EXPOSITION OF A MECHANISM
- 6THE LEVERS OF THE HUMAN BODY[1]
- 7Sir Arthur Keith
- 8THE EXPOSITION OF A MACHINE
- 9THE MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE[2]
- 10Philip T. Dodge
- 11THE EXPOSITION OF A PROCESS IN NATURE
- 12THE PEA WEEVIL[3]
- 13Jean Henri Fabre
- 14THE EXPOSITION OF A MANUFACTURING PROCESS
- 15MODERN PAPER-MAKING[5]
- 16J.W. Butler Paper Company
- 17THE EXPOSITION OF AN IDEA
- 18THE GOSPEL OF RELAXATION[6]
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