[(Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer)] [Author: Roy Peter Clark] published on (April, 2008) by Roy Peter Clark | 9780872899636

[(Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer)] [Author: Roy Peter Clark] published on (April, 2008)

By Roy Peter Clark

ISBN: 9780872899636
ASIN: B00742I1DA

Published: 2008

Number of Pages: 245

Edition: 1st

Binding: Spiral

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Product Type: Book

Publisher: CQ Press

Description: "Begin sentences with subjects and verbs," is the first tool in Roy Peter Clark's Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer. "Own the tools of your craft," the last. Pithy, entertaining, and always straight-to-the-point, Writing Tools sandwiches 48 more useful tools in-between, on "Nuts and Bolts" (words and sentences) "Special Effects" (tricks of the trade), "Blueprints" (organizational strategies), and "Useful Habits" for successful writers. Informed by Clark's thirty years as a teacher, writer, and journalist, every tool bears the stamp of his experience and lighthearted wisdom―from the usefulness of the suggestions (Tool 14: "Get the name of the dog") to the clarity of the prose itself. As fun to read as it is hands-on practical, it can be enjoyed straight-through or used as a reference as students draft, revise, and edit. Spiral-bound, the College Edition lays flat as students work at the computer, and at $16.95 suggested retail (after bookstore mark-up), Writing Tools is considerably less expensive than traditional writing textbooks. With over 30,000 copies sold to the mass-market, the College Edition is the perfect book to accompany a more comprehensive textbook, or for classrooms that don't use a traditional text at all.