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How to write short : word craft for fast times / by Roy Peter Clark.

Clark, Roy Peter, (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780316204354 :
  • ISBN: 0316204358 (hbk.)
  • Physical Description: viii, 264 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
When words are worth a thousand pictures -- How to write short. Collect short writing ; Study short writing wherever it finds you ; Read for focus ; Practice reading at a glance ; Follow the work of short writers ; Write in the margins ; Embrace the lyric ; No dumping ; Tape the power of two ; Learn to balance ; Give weight to one side ; Change your pace ; Hit your target ; Count to three ; Inject the juice of parallels ; Tweak the predictable ; Vary hard and soft words ; Cut it short ; Add by contraction ; Excerpt-- but in context ; Surprise with brevity -- How to write short with a purpose. Enshrine ; Crack wise ; Sound wise ; Sell ; Entice ; Surprise with content ; Reframe messages as dialogue ; Marry words with picture ; Summarize and define ; List ; Report and narrate ; Title ; Protect against the misuses of short writing -- A few final words-- 441 to be exact.
Subject: English language > Rhetoric.
Report writing.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Camosun College Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Interurban Library PE 1408 C4175 2013 (Text) 26040003073844 Main Collection Volume hold Available -
Lansdowne Library PE 1408 C4175 2013 (Text) 26040003072903 Main Collection Volume hold Available -


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