The writer's diet / Helen Sword.

By:

Sword, Helen [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781869408312

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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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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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