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The writer's diet / Helen Sword.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2007Description: vii, 77 pages : colour illustrations ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781869408312
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.042 23
Contents:
Introduction: A Writer's Diet -- 1. Verbal Verve -- 2. Noun Density -- 3. Prepositional Podge -- 4. Ad-dictions -- 5. Waste Words -- Afterword: Healthy Writing -- Appendix: The Writer'sDiet Test.
Summary: "Helen Sword teaches writers of all kinds - students to teachers, lawyers to librarians - how to transform flabby sentences into active, energetic prose. The book and the website enable writers to diagnose their writing for flab - passives and prepositions, weak verbs and waste words - and energise their work by stripping away unnecessary padding"--Publisher information.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 808.042 SWO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A528211B

Previous edition published: North Shore, New Zealand : Pearson Education New Zealand, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: A Writer's Diet -- 1. Verbal Verve -- 2. Noun Density -- 3. Prepositional Podge -- 4. Ad-dictions -- 5. Waste Words -- Afterword: Healthy Writing -- Appendix: The Writer'sDiet Test.

"Helen Sword teaches writers of all kinds - students to teachers, lawyers to librarians - how to transform flabby sentences into active, energetic prose. The book and the website enable writers to diagnose their writing for flab - passives and prepositions, weak verbs and waste words - and energise their work by stripping away unnecessary padding"--Publisher information.

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