Displaying 1 of 1 2013 Format: Book Author: Clark, Roy Peter, author. Title: How to write short : word craft for fast times / by Roy Peter Clark. Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2014, c2013. c2013 Description: viii, 264 pages ; 22 cm Summary: Offers advice and tips for packing a punch while being succinct when writing titles, essays, Tweets, letters, and emails in short form. Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric. Report writing. Notes: Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and 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 ; 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. ISBN: 9780316204323 (pbk.) 0316204323 (pbk.) 9780316204354 (hbk.) 0316204358 (hbk.) Other Number: 888198554 System Availability: 3 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 3 Control Number: 442961 # Local items in: 3 # System items in: 3 Call Number: 808.042 Clark Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
