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Write tight: say exactly what you mean with precision and power

By William , Brohaugh

Book information

Publisher
Sourcebooks
Year
2007
ISBN
9781402219283, 9781281824707, 1281824704, 9781402210518, 1402210515, 1402219288, 9781402250576, 1402250576
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1143159 bytes)
Pages
xi, 221 pages: illustrations\238
Time added
2020-11-29 04:20:13

Description

Front Cover; Untitled; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: Write Tight or Else by Lawrence Block; Introduction: A Tight Fit IntoToday's World; Chapter 1. The Four Levels of Wordiness and Howto Tackle Them; Chapter 2. Sixteen Types of Wordiness and How to Trim Them; Chapter 3. Prewriting Tight; Chapter 4. Testing Your Writing for Flab; Chapter 5. The Danger Signs of Wordiness; Chapter 6. Exercises for Developing Your Awareness of Concision; Chapter 7. Reducing the Mental Length of Your Manuscript; Chapter 8. Nonverbal Streamlining; Chapter 9. How Tight Is Too Tight?;Not since The Elements of Style has a writing guide had the ability to turn a writer?s work around so effectively.

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