To the Point A Dictionary of Concise Writing .epub

To the Point: A Dictionary of Concise Writing by Robert Hartwell Fiske



Overview: The essential guide to writing succinctly.



Who doesn’t hate wading through wordy paragraphs? Unfortunately, many writers don’t realize when they are padding their sentences and obscuring their meaning. Enter To the Point, the essential guide to writing succinctly. Featuring hundreds of new entries, this freshly updated edition is complete with:

• A guide to the basics of writing concisely, including how to reduce the number of words in a phrase, substitute a single word for a phrase, and delete extraneous words and phrases