Download e-book for iPad: Editor-Proof Your Writing: 21 Steps to the Clear Prose by Don McNair

By Don McNair

ISBN-10: 1610351789

ISBN-13: 9781610351782

Veteran editor Don McNair lays out an easy-to-follow and systematic procedure for clearing up foggy writing--writing that is filled with additional, misused, and overused words--in this consultant to generating gleaming replica that pulls readers, brokers, editors, and revenues. McNair explains the typical errors made by means of such a lot writers and exhibits how casting off pointless phrases strengthens motion, shorten sentences, and makes writing crackle with lifestyles. Containing 21 uncomplicated, common ideas, ""Editor-Proof Your Writing"" teaches find out how to edit susceptible verb kinds, strip away writer intrusions, ban redundancies, cast off foggy words, right passive-voice sentences, shrink misused and overused phrases, and fasten different writing blunders. a great addition to any writer's toolkit, this booklet won't simply make writing clearer and extra grammatical, it's going to additionally make it extra concise, interesting, and attractive to publishers.

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