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How to Write Short : Word Craft for Fast Times.

By: Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2013Description: viii, 264 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780316204354
  • 0316204358
  • 9780316204323
  • 0316204323
Other title:
  • Word craft for short times
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 808/.042 23
LOC classification:
  • PE1408 .C4175 2013
Contents:
When words are worth a thousand pictures -- 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 -- 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- 441 to be exact.
Summary: Offers advice and tips for packing a punch while being succinct when writing titles, essays, Tweets, letters, and emails in short form.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab PE1408 .C4175 2013 1 Checked out 01/01/2025 50583020008656
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

When words are worth a thousand pictures -- 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 -- 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- 441 to be exact.

Offers advice and tips for packing a punch while being succinct when writing titles, essays, Tweets, letters, and emails in short form.

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