書名 : How to write short :word craft for fast times /
紀錄類型 : 書目-語言資料,印刷品: 單行本
正題名[資料類型標示]/作者 : How to write short :by Roy Peter Clark.
其他題名 : word craft for fast times /
其他題名 : Word craft for fast times.
作者 : Clark, Roy Peter,
版本項 : First paperback edition.
出版者 : New York, NY :Little, Brown and Company,2014.
面頁冊數 : viii, 264 p. ;21 cm.
附註 : Originally published in hardcover ... August 2013--Title page verso.
內容註 : Introduction: When words are worth a thousand pictures -- I. How to write short : Collect short writing -- Study short writing wherever it finds you -- Read for focus -- Practice reading at a glance -- Follow the work of short writers -- Write in the margins -- Embrace the lyric -- No dumping -- Tap the power of two -- Learn to balance -- Give weight to one side -- Change your pace -- Hit your target -- Count to three -- Inject the juice of parallels -- Tweak the predictable -- Vary hard and soft words -- Join the six-word discipline -- Cut it short -- Add by contraction -- Excerpt-- but in context -- Surprise with brevity -- II. How to write short with a purpose : Enshrine -- Crack wise -- Sound wise -- Sell -- Entice -- Surprise with content -- Reframe messages as dialogue -- Marry words with pictures -- Summarize and define -- List -- Report and narrate -- Title -- Protect against the misuses of short writing -- A few final words : 441to be exact.
標題 : English language
ISBN : 9780316204323 (pbk.) :
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300 $aviii, 264 p. ;$c21 cm.
500 $aOriginally published in hardcover ... August 2013--Title page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: When words are worth a thousand pictures -- I. How to write short : Collect short writing -- Study short writing wherever it finds you -- Read for focus -- Practice reading at a glance -- Follow the work of short writers -- Write in the margins -- Embrace the lyric -- No dumping -- Tap the power of two -- Learn to balance -- Give weight to one side -- Change your pace -- Hit your target -- Count to three -- Inject the juice of parallels -- Tweak the predictable -- Vary hard and soft words -- Join the six-word discipline -- Cut it short -- Add by contraction -- Excerpt-- but in context -- Surprise with brevity -- II. How to write short with a purpose : Enshrine -- Crack wise -- Sound wise -- Sell -- Entice -- Surprise with content -- Reframe messages as dialogue -- Marry words with pictures -- Summarize and define -- List -- Report and narrate -- Title -- Protect against the misuses of short writing -- A few final words : 441to be exact.
520 $aOffers advice and tips for packing a punch while being succinct when writing titles, essays, Tweets, letters, and emails in short form.
650 0$aEnglish language$xRhetoric.
650 0$aReport writing.