Wordcraft: The Complete Guide to Clear, Powerful Writing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226749075)

Legendary writing coach Jack Hart spent twenty-six years at the Oregonian and has taught students and professionals of all stripes, including bloggers, podcasters, and more than one Pulitzer Prize winner. Good writing, he says, has the same basic attributes regardless of genre or medium. Wordcraft shares Hart's techniques for achieving those attributes in one of the most broadly useful writing books ever written.

Originally published in 2006 as A Writer's Coach, the book has been updated to address the needs of writers well beyond print journalists. Hart breaks the writing process into a series of manageable steps, from idea to polishing. Filled with real-world examples, both good and bad, Wordcraft shows how to bring such characteristics as force, brevity, clarity, rhythm, and color to any kind of writing.

Wordcraft now functions as a set with the second edition of Hart's book Storycraft, on the art of storytelling, also available from Chicago.

Author: Jack Hart
ISBN-10: 022674907X
ISBN-13: 9780226749075
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 04/09/2021
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d