In this wise and ingenious little guide, noted essayist Carl Klaus shows you how to adapt your self to the needs of such varied nonfiction, by varying his own persona to illustrate the distinctive effect produced by each aspect and element of writing.

Your self in writing. Your self and your persona ; Persona and performance ; Content, purpose, and persona ; Self-revelation and self-creation -- Elements of writing and your self. Point of view ; Levels of style ; Organization ; Continuity/discontinuity ; Little words ; Nouns and verbs versus adjectives and adverbs ; Concrete and abstract diction ; Figurative language ; Sentence structure ; Parallelism ; Balance ; Serial constructions ; Periodic sentences ; Quotations -- Reflections on revision, writing, and your self.