
How to Write Short
Word Craft for Fast Times
Roy Peter Clark(Author)
Little, Brown & Company (Publisher)
Published on 27. August 2013
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-316-20435-4 (ISBN)
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Description
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, 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-316-20435-4 (9780316204354)
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Person
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 - to schoolchildren and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors - for more than thirty years. A writer who teaches and a teacher who writes, he has authored or edited seventeen books on writing and journalism, including Writing Tools, The Glamour of Grammar, and Help! for Writers. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.