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vii, 77 pages : colour illustrations ; 19 cm
"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.
Previous edition published: North Shore, New Zealand : Pearson Education New Zealand, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.