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Wretched Writing: A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language
Contributor(s): Petras, Kathryn (Author), Petras, Ross (Author)

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 ISBN: 039915924X     ISBN-13: 9780399159244
Publisher: Tarcherperigee
OUR PRICE: $12.75  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2013
* Out of Print *
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - Authorship
Dewey: 808.020
LCCN: 2013009307
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" L (0.45 lbs) 214 pages
Features: Index, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/24/2013
 
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Publisher Description:
Wretched writing is the lowest of the low; it is a felonious assault on the English language. Exuberantly excessive, it is a sin committed often by amateurs and all-too-frequently by gifted writers having an off day. In short, it's very bad writing. Truly bad. Appallingly bad.

It's also very funny.

A celebration of the worst writing imaginable, Wretched Writing includes inadvertently filthy book titles, ridiculously overwrought passages from novels, bombastic and confusing speeches, moronic oxymorons, hyperactive hyperbole, horribly inappropriate imagery in ostensibly hot sex scenes, mangled clich s, muddled metaphors, and unintended double entendres.

Sit back and enjoy these deliciously dreadful samples, and try not to cringe too much.
 
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