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Title: Write Tight: How to Keep Your Prose Sharp, Focused and Concise by William Brohaugh ISBN: 1-882926-88-9 Publisher: ISI Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: A frustrating, overblown book
Comment: I found this book tedious, and guilty of the sins that it complains about - it mercilessly labors the bleedin' obvious. I suspect that form and structure are concepts that have never entered Mr. Brohaugh's head, and that he would reduce a Shakespearean sonnet to a series of advertising slogans. I finally abandoned it, 60 pages in, after being told that "careful" is an adverb and that "simple" is a synonym for "simplistic".
Rating: 5
Summary: no human who ever puts pen to paper should be without this!
Comment: no, i'm not trying to one-up the previous reviewer but i am not kidding. i'm a computer programmer- i wanted a book to help me better document manuals and perhaps give me a few writing tips. i'm on page 38 of this book and it is by far the most useful, insighful, practical writing book i've ever read. why wasn't this used when i was in high school????!!!!
if you ever need to write an email, a letter for your child's school, your grandmother, or some fancy newspaper article, this is a THE book you NEED!
Rating: 5
Summary: Wordiness is your enemy
Comment: As a beginning opinion columnist I learned quickly that wordiness can kill your column. How do you get the greatest effect with only 700 words? Brohaugh's book tells you how.
The principles he discusses in Write Tight apply to columnists, reporters, technical writers, or novelists. Whether you write for fun or profit, his advice will make your work more impactful. The world is full of books on better writing, so why is Brohaugh's book special? His book is actually fun to read.
His illustrations of wordiness are often hilarious even when his heavy shoe stomps your toes. Rather than just list poor choices of words, grammar, and style, he weaves them into his writing to show how silly and wasteful they really are.
If you write, you need to Write Tight.
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Title: The Dictionary of Concise Writing: 10,000 Alternatives to Wordy Phrases by Robert Hartwell Fiske, Richard Lederer ISBN: 0966517660 Publisher: Marion Street Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Dimwit's Dictionary: 5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to Them by Robert Hartwell Fiske, Joseph Epstein ISBN: 0966517679 Publisher: Marion Street Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Stunning Sentences (The Effective Writing Series) by Bruce Ross-Larson ISBN: 0393317951 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know about Writing by Patricia T. O'Conner ISBN: 0156010879 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 07 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Powerful Paragraphs by Bruce Ross-Larson ISBN: 0393317943 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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