How to write with power and precision: Practical advice to improve your writing for pleasure, business or profit - Softcover

Stiles, Dean; Nash, Sally

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1477514597 ISBN 13: 9781477514597

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

‘How to write with power and precision’ is a practical ‘how to’ guide to improve your writing. The book provides no-nonsense advice and guidance from two experienced journalists and teaches the craft of good writing. This book sets out basic techniques, all which are easy to apply, that will transform your writing – whether it is for business, school, university or pleasure – enabling you to communicate your ideas and thoughts with power and precision. It is packed with hints and tips that will help you overcome problems of grammar and style. Good writing is not an art, but a skill that anyone can perfect with a little time and practice, regardless of the extent of their formal education. Practising the techniques of good writing that this book explains will give you the confidence to write letters, business reports, and any other form of written communication, knowing that your words will mean what you say.

About this title

About the Author

Sally Nash and Dean Stiles are experienced freelance journalists writing for business magazines, specialist titles, and national newspapers in Britain. They have also published books. Sally, who has a masters degree from Manchester Metropolitan University co-wrote ‘University of Southampton: An illustrated history’ (James & James). Dean trained as a technical writer in the motor industry, and now divides his time between writing history – his book about newspaper reporting of the the Irish 1916 Easter Rising is available on Amazon – and maintaining his freelance commitments to magazines and websites. Dean has a masters degree in history from the University of Kent.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1477514597
• ISBN 13: 9781477514597
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92