Robert Hartwell Fiske

To the Point: A Dictionary of Concise Writing

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The essential guide to writing succinctly.Who doesn't hate wading through wordy paragraphs? Unfortunately, many writers don't realize when they are padding their sentences and obscuring their meaning. Enter To the Point, the essential guide to writing succinctly. Featuring hundreds of new entries, this freshly updated edition is complete with:• A guide to the basics of writing concisely, including how to reduce the number of words in a phrase, substitute a single word for a phrase, and delete extraneous words and phrases.• The Dictionary of Concise Writing, which gives concise alternatives to thousands of wordy phrases. Language expert Robert… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-24289-8
EAN: 9780393242898
Produktnummer: 34247478
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 784 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 576 KB

Über den Autor

Robert Hartwell Fiske is the editor and publisher of The Vocabula Review, an online journal about the English language. The author of The Dictionary of Unendurable English and other books about language, he lives in Rockport, Massachusetts.