Learn the lowdown on rewriting right with this definitive guide to polishing your prose - Companion volume to Write Right! - over 365,000 copies sold worldwide - Describes in clear, direct language how to edit and rewrite reports, letters, essays and articles - Includes helpful lists of redundant expressions, stuffy words, and worn-out sayings - Will help you improve the quality of your work and help you harness the power of language ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Everyone knows that writing can be improved by the simple process of reviewing, editing, and rewriting, but many struggle with how to go about critlquing their own work. Fortunately, help is literally at hand with this definitive guide to polishing your prose. In Rewrite Right, you will learn all the skills needed to revise work and incorporate good habits into everyday writing routines. This way, you can learn to improve the quality of your work and harness the power of language.
Good, clear writing appears effortless. But chances are, the more effective the communication, the more work that went into making it so. Rare is the individual whose professional or personal life doesn't call for some written communication. Jan Venolia's Rewrite Right! is small enough to slip into a laptop carrying case, yet it offers, as the author says, "a solid foundation in the principles of revising." Venolia recommends editing on two levels--first to improve the writing, then to correct the language--and lays out her lesson plan with a four-page editing checklist. Most professional writers (though, believe me, certainly not all) understand the importance of writing to an audience, avoiding jargon and hackneyed expressions, and getting the words right. But anyone else who writes could benefit from a no-nonsense guide such as this. Venolia peppers her text with lists (e.g., of stuffy words, biased language, clichés), humor, and examples from the likes of Mark Twain and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Entertaining quotations strewn throughout are fresh and to the point. ("Writing a first paragraph," quips Lynn Z. Bloom, "is like raising a first child. It's better if you start out on the second.") "Good writing gets things done," says Venolia. Her Rewrite Right! offers valuable tips on "how to tug on words and adjust them until they say what you want them to say." --Jane Steinberg
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
You write, you say?:
If your answer is yes, you should own this book. In one version or another, it's been on my desk forever. Venolia dots all the "i"s and crosses all the "t"s. (Did I say that right?)
Fits nicely on th writing desk:
Jan Venolia covers the editing process in essentially five stages: Content, style, punctuation, grammar and mechanical style. Rewrite Right functions better as a grammatical reference book than as a guide for how to edit an article or book. This is because her discussion of style, punctuation and mechanical style all inherently involve understanding grammar. Vernolia's approach is to writing is technical, not theoretical. So, if your thinking and writing is nebulous, and you need help refining your... more info
Good functional little book:
This is a simple and functional book that will assist any editor or writer. It contains some very useful advice about the craft of rewriting which is 80 per cent of writing.
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