Sword, Helen, <br/><br/>
The writer's diet / 
Helen Sword. 
 - vii, 77 pages :  colour illustrations ;  19 cm 
<br/><br/> Previous edition published: North Shore, New Zealand : Pearson Education New Zealand, 2007. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction: A Writer's Diet --  Verbal Verve --  Noun Density --  Prepositional Podge --  Ad-dictions --  Waste Words --  Afterword: Healthy Writing --  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  Appendix: The Writer'sDiet Test. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781869408312 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--Rhetoric<br/>English language--Written English.<br/>English language--Style.<br/>English language--Style--Problems, exercises, etc.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>808.042