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From Publishers Weekly Covering the writing waterfront-from basics on verb tense to the value of forming a "support group"-Poynter Institute vice president Clark offers tips, tricks and techniques for anyone putting fingers to keyboard. The best assets in Clark's book are in the "workshop" sections that conclude each chapter and list strategies for incorporating the material covered in each lesson (minimize adverbs, use active verbs, read your work aloud). Though some suggestions are classroom campy ("Listen to song lyrics to hear how the language moves on the ladder of abstraction" and "With some friends, take a big piece of chart paper and with colored markers draw a diagram of your writing process"), Clark's blend of instruction and exercise will prove especially useful for teachers. One exercise, for instance, suggests reading the newspaper and marking the location of subjects and verbs. Another provides a close reading of a passage from The Postman Always Rings Twice to look at the ways word placement and sentence structure can add punch to prose. Clark doesn't intend his guide to be a replacement for classic style guides like Elements of Style, but as a companion volume, it

Who reads Writing Tools : 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer?

Author

Clark, Roy Peter

Publisher

Little, Brown Spark, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316014991

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Reference, Fiction

Rating

4.16 / 5 (413 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14