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Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know About Writing - Hardcover

O'Conner, Patricia T.

 
9780151003716: Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know About Writing
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0151003718 ISBN 13: 9780151003716
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999

Synopsis

A practical guide to good writing takes readers step by step through the process, offering valuable advice on how to cut through the purple prose, put your subject where the action is, and extricate weak words, among other topics. 50,000 first printing.

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About the Authors

Patrcia T. O'Conner was an editor at the New York Times Book Review when she wrote Woe Is I. Her writing has appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times and Newsweek. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, Stewart Kellerman.

Patrcia T. O'Conner was an editor at the New York Times Book Review when she wrote Woe Is I. Her writing has appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times and Newsweek. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, Stewart Kellerman.

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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0151003718
ISBN 13 
9780151003716
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
230