Do I make myself clear? : why writing well matters /
Harry Evans has edited everything from the urgent files of battlefield reporters to the complex thought processes of Henry Kissinger. He's even been knighted for his services to journalism. In DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?, he brings his indispensable insight to us all in his definite guide to writin...
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- I. Tools of the trade
- A noble thing
- Use and abuse of writing formulas
- The sentence clinic
- Ten shortcuts to making yourself clear
- Please don't feed the zombies, flesh-eaters, and pleonasms
- Interlude: Give the Bard a break
- II. Finishing the job
- Every word counts
- Care for meanings
- Storytelling: the long and short of it
- III. Consequences
- Steps were taken: explaining the underwear bomber
- Money and words
- Buried treasure: it's yours, but words get in the way
- Home runs for writers.