Essays, selected from the first seventy-five years of Writer's Digest magazine, cover style, genre, dialogue, plot, research, organization, and endings
Clark, Eve. 1987. “The Principle of Contrast.” In Mechanisms of Language Acquisition, edited by Brian MacWhinney, 1–33. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Clark, Herbert H. 1996. Using Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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