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RECORD NUMBER: 352 OF 752Main Title | How to write short : word craft for fast times / | |||||||||||
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Author | Clark, Roy Peter, | |||||||||||
Publisher | Little, Brown and Company, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2013 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 814301789 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 9780316204354; 0316204358; 9780316204323; 0316204323 | |||||||||||
Subjects | English language--Rhetoric ; Report writing ; Exposition (Rhetoric) ; Literature | |||||||||||
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Collation | viii, 264 pages ; 22 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Notes | When words are worth a thousand pictures -- How to write short: Collect short writing ; Study short writing wherever it finds you ; Read for focus ; Practice reading at a glance ; Follow the work of short writers ; Write in the margins ; Embrace the lyric ; No dumping ; Tap the power of two ; Learn to balance ; Give weight to one side ; Change your pace ; Hit your target ; Count to three ; Inject the juice of parallels ; Tweak the predictable ; Vary hard and soft words ; Join the six-word discipline ; Cut it short ; Add by contraction ; Excerpt- but in context ; Surprise with brevity -- How to write short with a purpose: Enshrine ; Crack wise ; Sound wise ; Sell ; Entice ; Surprise with content ; Reframe messages as dialogue ; Marry words with pictures ; Summarize and define ; List ; Report and narrate ; Title ; Protect against the misuses of short writing -- A few final words- 441 to be exact. Offers advice and tips for packing a punch while being succinct when writing titles, essays, Tweets, letters, and emails in short form. |