How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times - Hardcover

Clark, Roy Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316204358 ISBN 13: 9780316204354

Verlag: Little, Brown and Company, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing.

In How to Write Short, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing Internet age, short-form writing has become an essential skill.

Clark covers how to write effective and powerful titles, headlines, essays, sales pitches, Tweets, letters, and even self-descriptions for online dating services. With examples from the long tradition of short-form writing in Western culture, How to Write Short guides writers to crafting brilliant prose, even in 140 characters.

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Roy Peter Clark is senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, one of the most prestigious schools for journalists in the world. He has taught writing at every level -- from schoolchildren to Pulitzer Prize-winning authors -- for more than forty years.

A writer who teaches and a teacher who writes, he has authored or edited nineteen books on writing and journalism, including The Art of X-Ray Reading, How to Write Short, Writing Tools, The Glamour of Grammar, and Help! for Writers. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he is considered a garage-band legend.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0316204358
• ISBN 13: 9780316204354
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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