How to Write Persuasively Today
1st Edition
Published on 26. February 2010
164 pages
978-0-313-37838-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a step-by-step guide to harnessing the power to persuade in a variety of forms of writing.
How to Write Persuasively Today is an authoritative handbook for getting your point across, a step-by-step how-to guide for making sure you say what you mean in the clearest, most effective way possible.
Drawing on over three decades of professional writing and speaking experience, author Carolyn Davis breaks down the challenges, issues, and potential pitfalls involved in persuasive writing, providing practical strategies and solutions for communicating with the utmost clarity, precision, force, and style. It is a presentation filled with vivid, often humorous real-life examples of writing and presentations of all kinds-one that also equips readers with the tools needed to assess and evaluate everything from advertising claims to political propaganda to survey results.
How to Write Persuasively Today is an authoritative handbook for getting your point across, a step-by-step how-to guide for making sure you say what you mean in the clearest, most effective way possible.
Drawing on over three decades of professional writing and speaking experience, author Carolyn Davis breaks down the challenges, issues, and potential pitfalls involved in persuasive writing, providing practical strategies and solutions for communicating with the utmost clarity, precision, force, and style. It is a presentation filled with vivid, often humorous real-life examples of writing and presentations of all kinds-one that also equips readers with the tools needed to assess and evaluate everything from advertising claims to political propaganda to survey results.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
File size
0,69 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-313-37838-6 (9780313378386)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
Carolyn Davis
How to Write Persuasively Today
Book
02/2010
Greenwood Press
€46.40
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Content
Series Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 What Am I Writing?
Chapter 2 Issues and Challenges
Chapter 3 Problems and Solutions
Chapter 4 Strategies for Success: Everything That Attracted Me to Reading Reports for School, College, and Business I Learned by the Fourth Grade
Chapter 5 Resources for the Future
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 What Am I Writing?
Chapter 2 Issues and Challenges
Chapter 3 Problems and Solutions
Chapter 4 Strategies for Success: Everything That Attracted Me to Reading Reports for School, College, and Business I Learned by the Fourth Grade
Chapter 5 Resources for the Future
Index
