Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose

Constance Hale

ISBN 10: 0767903080 / ISBN 13: 9780767903080

Published by Broadway Books, 1999

About this Item

1st ed/1st printing. This book is square, solid, and unread; the boards are solid and unblemished, and the dust jacket is sharp and glossy. No price clippings, no remainder marks. You'll be so thrilled with this book upon its arrival you'll hop, skip, and do the pogo with wild abandon upon its arrival!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0767903080
• ISBN 13: 9780767903080
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

An expert on contemporary copywriting offers clever and innovative advice on up-to-date writing styles, showing how to break through conventional modes to achieve a striking and hip style. $25,000 ad/promo.

About the Author

Constance Hale (chale@well.com) is the author of Wired Style, the one-of-a-kind guide to online English usage and geekspeak that was hailed by Newsweek as "The Chicago Manual of Style for the Millennium." A former editor at Wired, Hale has written for numerous publications including the San Francisco Examiner and The Microsoft Network. She has created maverick writing courses for people of all ages, including a popular seminar called "Grammar for Grownups," and currently teaches at U.C. Berkeley. She lives in Oakland, California.