Do I Make Myself Clear? : Why Writing Well Matters (Hardcover)

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Best for: Writing classrooms. In a nutshell: Longtime writer and editor Harold Evans offers lessons to improve writing. Worth quoting: “We are more likely to understand the argument if we know where we are heading.” “Anything that goes wrong will always be wordier than anything that goes right.” ...

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This was an immensely useful book. Any writer and/or editor should take careful heed of it. While some of the discussion pages seemed to be filled and slanted with political insinuations, the exercises that are given are a great resources for a writer to build the knowledge base and recognize pat...

from Razinha

I needed this book. Everybody needs this book - even if English is not your language of choice. In an age when degenerated vernacular makes its way into electronic mail, and worse... papers, reports, news stories...when the idiotic term "fake news" is slung with chopped sentence fragments of Twit...

from Razinha

I needed this book. Everybody needs this book - even if English is not your language of choice. In an age when degenerated vernacular makes its way into electronic mail, and worse... papers, reports, news stories...when the idiotic term "fake news" is slung with chopped sentence fragments of Twit...