Table of Contents

• Preface
• topical guide

1. Rhetoric 1
   1. Repetition- Epizeuxis, Conduplicatio, conduplicatio, Epimone, EPANALEPSIS, EPISTROPHE...
2. Rhetoric 2'
   • Structure-Parallel Structure: ISOCOLON, Reversal of Structure: CHIASMUS, order anastrophe,
3. Rhetoric 3
   • Dramatic-Paralipsis, deferred, the thing already known, APOSIOPESIS, METANOIA, the negative,
4. Metaphor 1
   • Figures of Comparison-Animals, Nature, Inner States
5. Metaphor 2
   • Human Biology, Savagery, Poverty,
6. Functional Grammar 1
   • Theme and Rheme, functions, clauses, conjunction, modal comments, WH- groups,
7. Functional Grammar 2
   • Process, participants and circumstances, happenings, transitivity, material and mental, attribution, ...
8. Style
   • The Saxon finish and restatement, Metonymy, Hyperbole sentence length, Left and right branching, Uses of the Passive,
9. Writing Tips from Fiction
   • Beginnings, Immediacy, Characters, Conflict, Tension, Comparison, Resonance, Revision
10. Classic Style 1
    • Truth, Presentation, Hedges, Scene Joint Attention, Abstractions Can Be Clear and Exact, Language
11. Classic Style 2
    • Joint Attention, Steps to classic style, cognitive compression into objects, mental networks, tutorial
12. Legal Writing
    • Planning, logical sequences and order, sentences, parallelism, ending emphasis, strong precision, persuasion, transitions,
    • signposts, clutter, Drafting, document design, editing and revision
13. Sentences and Words
    • Be verb, Pronouns, Him, They, whom, Commas, arrangement, to do list

1. Judge Robert W. Jackson stylistics
   • Set syllogism and modality
2. J1 clause and conjunction
   • JOHNSON v. UNITED STATES.
3. J2 clause and conjunction
   • UNITED STATES v. DI RE.