How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times by Clark, Roy Peter

How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316204323)

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How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times by Clark, Roy Peter

How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times

$17.99
How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times by Clark, Roy Peter

How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times

$17.99
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Roy Peter Clark
ISBN-10: 0316204323
ISBN-13: 9780316204323
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
Language: English
Published: 08/19/2014
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
By Roy Peter Clark
By Roy Peter Clark
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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.

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