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Item Details
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THE WRITER'S DIET
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| By: |
Helen Sword |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£23.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1869408314 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781869408312 |
| Publisher: |
AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
20 April, 2015 |
| Pages: |
88 |
| Description: |
Is your writing flabby or fit? If your sentences are weighed down with passives and prepositions, be-verbs and waste words, The WriterAEs Diet is for you. This book will help you energise your writing and strip unnecessary padding from your prose. It offers a short, sharp introduction to great writing. |
| Synopsis: |
Is your writing flabby or fit? If your sentences are weighed down with passives and prepositions, be-verbs and waste words, The WriterAEs Diet is for you. This book will help you energise your writing and strip unnecessary padding from your prose. The WriterAEs Diet offers a short, sharp introduction to great writing. Through the online test at www.writersdiet.com and the analysis and examples in this book, Helen Sword teaches writers of all kinds u students to teachers, lawyers to librarians u how to transform flabby sentences into active, energetic prose. The book and the website enable writers to diagnose their writing for flab u passives and prepositions, weak verbs and waste words u and energise their work by stripping away unnecessary padding. The rules of good writing are deceptively simple but this book helps writers to see those principles at work, through examples by stylish authors from Charles Dickens to John McPhee. First published in 2007, The WriterAEs Diet became a bestselling handbook and now returns refreshed alongside a new version of www.writersdiet.com.The book will highlight your bad habits and sharpen your style u for clearer, crisper sentences filled with words that count. |
| Publication: |
New Zealand |
| Imprint: |
Auckland University Press |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for PANZ Book Design Awards: Best Educational Book 2016 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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