Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #78171 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 187 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent, and nothing quite like it
This book is smart. It is practical and helpful. Besides offering many great ideas on writing coherant paragraphs, it becomes an excellent aid to brainstorming. My only gripe is that there is no bibliography for reference and further study, and no references to recommended paragraphs by other writers. Still, I know of no book quite like this. I'm glad I bought it.

For aspiring authors of all ages & backgrounds
A Writer's Guide To Powerful Paragraphs by Victor C. Pellegrino is a straightforward, easy-to-understand how-to guide to improving the quality of one's writing, one paragraph at a time. Aspiring writers are provided with thirty different but effective ways to organize and write competent paragraphs, including paragraphs focused on chronology, physical or process analysis, classification, enumeration, cause and effect, dialogue, anecdotes, introductions, conclusions, transitions, and a great deal more. Highly recommended and quite "user friendly", A Writer's Guide To Powerful Paragraphs is a superbly organized and presented supplement for aspiring authors of all ages, backgrounds, and experience levels ranging from the high school novice, through community college and university level writing assignments, to professional contract and free-lance authors.

For beginners
There are plenty of writing guides available for writers in every stage of their careers. A Writer's Guide to Powerful Paragraphs is definitely one of those how-to guides better suited for beginning writers.

The author models his paragraphs the way I learned all the way back in high school. This is not to say that it's a bad thing, but it is geared more for non-fiction writing of the formal essay variety more than anything else.

More than that, this book's formatting is amateurish at best. Every paragraph in the book has a space between it; no doubt put there in order tom make this little how-to book long enough to able to use perfect binding.

There's really nothing new here. And for a writer looking to strengthen his/her own writing style one might be better off simply reading works from other well-known writers whose style they admire in order to learn more.