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Title: 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing by Gary Provost, Gray Provost ISBN: 0-451-62721-0 Publisher: Mentor Books Pub. Date: October, 1985 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent tips, would be better if updated
Comment: Gary Provost gives writers of all kinds lots of useful tips on how to improve writing of all kinds. I especially liked his use of amusing anecdotes and examples of how to and how NOT to write in certain ways. Most such tips, of course, are timeless, but the fact this book came out in the mid-1980s shows. His information on how to format a manuscript for submission assumes the use of a typewriter, not a computer with sophisticated word processing programs. Also, the book says nothing in its section on research on how to navigate the Internet to find needed information. Why bother the nice woman at your local library with questions about annual tomato yields in Florida when a few clicks of the mosue will give you the same information?
If Mr. Provost had issued an updated edition of this book, I'd have given it five stars. You might want to consider it, Mr. Provost. If you for whatever reason can't take on such a project, email me, and I'll be happy to help you out...
Rating: 5
Summary: Helped me to dramatically improve my writing
Comment: I only write reviews for books that I love or books that disgust me. This one I loved. I've written two books (The Journey To Teams and The Kaizen Revolution) that have sold (so far) a total of 6,500 copies. "100 Ways" helped me become a much better writer. I carefully applied each "tip" as I wrote and edited the first, second, and final drafts of each of my books. I felt great as my writing became dramatically more clear and lively. I'm not a great writer (yet), but I've gone from "awful" to "pretty darn decent." I'm starting on a third book now, and I will read "100 Ways" again. You can't be too good at the basics.
By the way, at least two other reviewers said this book would be better if it was updated. Pure bunk. Good writing is good writing - it hasn't changed in 50 years and it won't change in the next 50. Wake up and smell the coffee.
Rating: 5
Summary: Self Improvement for writers!
Comment: This is a great book loaded with many useful ideas and tips on how to improve your writing.
Zev Saftlas, Author of Motivation That Works: How to Get Motivated and Stay Motivated
PS This book helped me write my book!
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Title: Line by Line : How to Edit Your Own Writing by Claire Kehrwald Cook ISBN: 0395393914 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 30 June, 1986 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: On Writing Well, 25th Anniversary : The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William K. Zinsser ISBN: 0060006641 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 18 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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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: The Classic Guide to Better Writing : Step-by-Step Techniques and Exercises to Write Simply, Clearly and Correctly by Rudolf Flesch ISBN: 0062730487 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 03 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr., E.B. White, Roger Angell ISBN: 020530902X Publisher: Pearson Higher Education Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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