How to Say It Style Guide: Techniques That Will Make Your Writing the Best It Can Be - Softcover

Maggio, Rosalie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 073520313X ISBN 13: 9780735203136

Publisher: Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

From Rosalie Maggio, author of the bestselling How to Say It, comes a quick guide to composing perfect prose. This ideal writer's companion provides succinct solutions to the most common writing problems, and gives you all the information you need to write powerful and persuasive prose.

The How to Say It Style Guide begins with a brief introduction to the eighteen rules every writer must know. It moves quickly on to an A-to-Z guide that offers clear, easy-to-find answers to all your writing questions, and concludes with a section on troublesome words and phrases. Key words throughout direct you to the right entry, and a helpful index makes finding answers easy.

Illustrated with quotes from literature, the How to Say It Style Guide is fun to browse and an indispensable reference that will make your business and personal writing the best it can be.

About this title

Synopsis:

Provides succinct solutions to the most common writing problems, and gives you all the information you need to write powerful and persuasive prose. Illustrated with quotes from literature, this volume is fun to browse and an indispensable reference that will make your business and personal writing the best it can be.

About the Author:

Rosalie Maggio is the award-winning author of eighteen books. She is a member of the Authors Guild and the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books Canada Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 073520313X
• ISBN 13: 9780735203136
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128