The Connell Guide to How to Write Well - Softcover

Tim De Lisle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911187597 ISBN 13: 9781911187592

Publisher: Connell Guides, 2017

Synopsis

What's the secret of a stylish essay, or story, or email? How do you make your sentences sparkle? In this slim volume, a leading editor who is also a pop critic and sportswriter shows how much fun you can have while sharpening your pen. In a few breezy chapters, Tim de Lisle hands you the keys to good writing: how to be clear, concise and vivid. He rattles through the basics of grammar and punctuation, reveals the tricks that will bring your writing alive, and steers you round the rocks of self-consciousness. Spend a couple of hours with this book, and you'll learn things that will help you for years to come.

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About the Author

Tim de Lisle wrote for Smash Hits and The Observer while reading classics at Oxford and went on to be the rock critic of The Daily Telegraph, arts editor of The Times and The Independent on Sunday and a feature writer for The Guardian. He edited Wisden Cricketers Almanack 2003, the first edition with a photo on the cover, and won Editor of the Year awards with Wisden Cricket Monthly and Intelligent Life. Now the rock critic of The Mail on Sunday, a cricket writer for The Guardian, a consultant with Innovation Media and a writing coach, he lives in London with his wife, a history teacher, and their two children, both students.

Edition details

• Publisher: Connell Guides
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911187597
• ISBN 13: 9781911187592
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Jolyon Connell, Paul Woodward