The writer's diet /
"Helen Sword teaches writers of all kinds - students to teachers, lawyers to librarians - how to transform flabby sentences into active, energetic prose. The book and the website enable writers to diagnose their writing for flab - passives and prepositions, weak verbs and waste words - and ener...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Auckland, New Zealand :
Auckland University Press,
2015.
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| Summary: | "Helen Sword teaches writers of all kinds - students to teachers, lawyers to librarians - how to transform flabby sentences into active, energetic prose. The book and the website enable writers to diagnose their writing for flab - passives and prepositions, weak verbs and waste words - and energise their work by stripping away unnecessary padding"--Publisher information. |
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| Item Description: | Previous edition published: North Shore, New Zealand : Pearson Education New Zealand, 2007. |
| Physical Description: | vii, 77 pages : colour illustrations ; 19 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781869408312 1869408314 |