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Summary: Wordiness is your enemy
Review: As a beginning opinion columnist I learned quickly that wordiness can kill your column. How do you get the greatest effect with only 700 words? Brohaugh's book tells you how.The principles he discusses in Write Tight apply to columnists, reporters, technical writers, or novelists. Whether you write for fun or profit, his advice will make your work more impactful. The world is full of books on better writing, so why is Brohaugh's book special? His book is actually fun to read. His illustrations of wordiness are often hilarious even when his heavy shoe stomps your toes. Rather than just list poor choices of words, grammar, and style, he weaves them into his writing to show how silly and wasteful they really are. If you write, you need to Write Tight.
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Summary: Wordiness is your enemy
Review: As a beginning opinion columnist I quickly learned that wordiness can kill your column. How do you get the greatest effect with only 700 words? Brohaugh's book tells you.
The principles he discusses in Write Tight apply to columnists, reporters, technical writers, or novelists. Whether you write for fun or profit, his advice will make your work more impactful. The world is full of books on better writing, so why is Brohaugh's book special? It's actually fun to read.
His illustrations of wordiness are often hilarious even when his heavy shoe stomps your toes. Rather than just list poor choices of words, grammar, and style, he weaves them into his writing to show how silly and wasteful they are.
If you write, you need to Write Tight.
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Summary: A frustrating, overblown book
Review: I found this book tedious, and guilty of the sins that it complains about - it mercilessly labors the bleedin' obvious. I suspect that form and structure are concepts that have never entered Mr. Brohaugh's head, and that he would reduce a Shakespearean sonnet to a series of advertising slogans. I finally abandoned it, 60 pages in, after being told that "careful" is an adverb and that "simple" is a synonym for "simplistic".
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Summary: A must have for any serious writer
Review: I read the previous edition of Write Tight in college for a writing class. Though I read many writing books during those years but this is the only one I keep rereading and referring to since I graduated six years ago.
The book does a wonderful job of showing how verbose any type of writing can become and that, if done correctly, tight writing does a much better job of sharing the same message. This book is a must for anyone who's looking to write clear, concise copy. And the new edition is even better than the old one!
Please note the book already assumes you have a good knowledge of grammar and sentence structure and doesn't really show you "how to write" but rather, "how to write better."
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Summary: A must read for all beginning writers
Review: If you haven't read the MLA, or Chicago Manual of Style, you gotta read this book! No writer should be without a copy. It reads like an expansion of The Elements of Style, by Strunk and White. If you can find a copy, buy it. It will make an excellent gift for any writer.
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Summary: no human who ever puts pen to paper should be without this!
Review: no, i'm not trying to one-up the previous reviewer but i am not kidding. i'm a computer programmer- i wanted a book to help me better document manuals and perhaps give me a few writing tips. i'm on page 38 of this book and it is by far the most useful, insighful, practical writing book i've ever read. why wasn't this used when i was in high school????!!!!
if you ever need to write an email, a letter for your child's school, your grandmother, or some fancy newspaper article, this is a THE book you NEED!
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