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Author Clark, Roy Peter, author.

Title How to write short : word craft for fast times / by Roy Peter Clark.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  808.02 CLARK    Check Shelf
 Avon Free Public Library - New Materials  808 CLARK    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Display shelf  808.042 C549    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  808 C549    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  808.042 CLARK    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  808.042 CLARK    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  808.042 CLARK    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  808.042 CLARK    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  808.042 CLARK    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  808 CLARK    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 264 pages ; 22 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents 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 ; Tape 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 picture ; Summarize and define ; List ; Report and narrate ; Title ; Protect against the misuses of short writing -- A few final words-- 441 to be exact.
Subject English language -- Rhetoric.
Report writing.
ISBN 0316204323 paperback
9780316204323 paperback
9780316204354 hardback $20.00
0316204358 hardback
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