About this item
The essential guide to writing succinctly. Who doesnt hate wading through wordy paragraphs? Unfortunately, many writers dont realize when they are padding their sentences and obscuring their meaning. Enter To the Point, the essential guide to writing succinctly. Featuring hundreds of new entries, this freshly updated edition is complete with A guide to the basics of writing concisely, including how to reduce the number of words in a phrase, substitute a single word for a phrase, and delete extraneous words and phrases. The Dictionary of Concise Writing, which gives concise alternatives to thousands of wordy phrases. Language expert Robert Hartwell Fiske uses each wordy phrase in a sentence and then rewrites or deletes the phrase entirely to show how the sentence can be improved.
About the Author
Robert Hartwell Fiske is the editor and publisher of The Vocabula Review (www.vocabula.com) , since 1999 an online journal about the English language. He also publishes The Daily Vocabula, a free M-F email that offers sections on disagreeable English, elegant English, concise writing, and scarcely used words.He is the author of: * The Dictionary of Unendurable English (Scribner) * To the Point: The Dictionary of Concise Writing (W. W. Norton) * Elegant English (Vocabula Books) He is the owner of Vocabula Communications Company (www.vocabula.com/VCC.asp) , which consists of The Vocabula Review, The Daily Vocabula, Vocabula Books, and Language Guardian.
