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Transform your writing! If you're ready to empower your writing but are unsure of where to start, let Keys to Great Writing Revised and Expanded show you the way. Award-winning author and veteran writing coach Stephen Wilbers provides invaluable instruction on every aspect of the craft, from word choice and sentence structure to organization and revision. In this edition, you'll find:Self-assessments to strengthen your sentences and paragraphs, evaluate your goals, and approach your writing with confidence.Practical and easy-to-understand techniques for utilizing economy, precision, action, music, and personality.Helpful tips and techniques for the writing process, including advice on prewriting, drafting, revising, and proofreading.Exercises, checklists, and more to refine your writing skills.For more than a decade, Keys to Great Writing has helped writers of all experience levels infuse their work with clarity, grace, and style. With the revised and expanded edition at your fingertips, you'll have the tools to invigorate your prose and develop a unique and effective voice.
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Stephen Wilbers, Ph.D.
wilbe004@umn.edu
www.wilbers.com
About the Author
Stephen Wilbers is an award-winning author, columnist, and writing consultant who has presented seminars to more than 10,000 writers. His most recent book (published in April 2014) is "Mastering the Craft of Writing: How to Write with Clarity, Emphasis, and Style," a compilation of 52 techniques of style drawn from his free monthly writing tips that includes fun exercises and humorous commentary.
His earlier book on stylistic technique, "Keys to Great Writing," has been described as "a writing class in a book" that "breaks down general advice on what to do into practical steps on how to do it." His doctoral dissertation, a history of the renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 1980. He has published two collections of his columns, "Writing for Business" (winner of a 1994 Minnesota Book Award) and "Writing by Wilbers."
He has also written three books about wilderness canoeing and has a fourth one on the way. The first, "This Northern Nonsense: Ernest Oberholtzer and Mallard Island," is a chapbook of poems about the legacy of the preservationist who helped save the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from development. "A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time" depicts efforts to preserve a remarkable wilderness on Minnesota's northern border while telling the story of canoeing for nearly 30 years with his father, and "Canoeing the Boundary Waters Wilderness: A Sawbill Log" continues the story of the challenges, dangers, and rewards of wilderness canoeing.
With Sawbill Canoe Outfitter Bill Hansen, he is currently writing a guidebook on how to enjoy wilderness canoeing, to be published by The History Press in the spring of 2015.
In addition, he has recently completed "A Grammatical Affair," a genre-breaking literary lark that offers writing instruction, memoir, and a wildly romantic love story in the form of a novel.
Dr. Wilbers earned his B.A. at Vanderbilt University and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. In 1979, as Director of the University of Iowa's Undergraduate Academic Advising Center, he established the university's first campus-wide advising program, and in 1985 he was a Visiting Fulbright Fellow at the University of Essex in Colchester, England. From 1981-88 he directed the University of Minnesota's Student Academic Support Services in the College of Liberal Arts, and in 1988-90 he served as Associate Director and Acting Director of the Program in Creative and Professional writing, where he worked with the creative writing faculty members Charlie Sugnet, Michael Dennis Brown, Patricia Hampl, and Alan Burns to establish a multi-section introduction to creative writing course that is still offered t
