Do I Make Myself Clear? : Why Writing Well Matters

Evans, Harold, 1928-2020, author.

EAudiobook 2017

"This wise and entertaining guide by one of the great editors of our time offers timeless tools for making meaning clear. Refresh your writing. Unravel convoluted sales talk written to deceive. See through political campaigns erected on a tower of falsehoods. Fake news is but one of the pimples of a literate civilization under siege. Slovenly English! Billions of words come at us every day with unimaginable velocity and shriveled meaning, in soci...

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Composition (Language arts.)

Creative writing

Englisch

English language Grammar

English language Rhetoric

English language Usage

Rhetorik

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ISBN:

9781478968719

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Electronic reproduction. Ashland Hachette Book Group 2017 Available via World Wide Web

Contents:

I: Tools of the trade. A noble thing ; Use and abuse of writing formulas ; The sentence clinic ; Ten shortcuts to making yourself clear ; Please don't feed the zombies, flesh-eaters, and pleonasms
Interlude: Give the Bard a break
II: Finishing the job. Every word counts ; Care for meanings ; Storytelling : the long and short of it
III: Consequences. Steps were taken : explaining the Underwear Bomber ; Money and words ; Buried treasure : it's yours, but words get in the way ; Home runs for writers

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3099677

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