Revising Prose (4th Edition)

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Summary: The best book about writing
Review: I first read this book in 1980 as a graduate student and it changed the way I write. I still remember the shock I felt then at learning that academic writing did not have to be tedious, wordy and stuffy. Everybody to whom I've given this book (back before it became so expensive)has also found that it radically changed their writing for the better.

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Summary: The best book about writing
Review: One of the most informative and entertaining books I've ever read. This book teaches concise writing methods. If bureaucrats around the world learned from this book, we'd save the old growth forests.

After I buy this copy, I will no longer lend it to my "friends", as this is the 4th copy which has disappeared.

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Summary: Grammar CAN make you roll on the floor laughing
Review: One of the most informative and entertaining books I've ever read. This book teaches concise writing methods. If bureaucrats around the world learned from this book, we'd save the old growth forests.

After I buy this copy, I will no longer lend it to my "friends", as this is the 4th copy which has disappeared.

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Summary: A fantastic book to improve your nonfiction prose writing
Review: Take a deep breath, ignore the hefty price tag, and click Add to Cart. Lanham does a fantastic job providing simple techniques that allow anyone from the the casual writer to the technical writer streamline their prose to create clearer and more powerful sentences, paragraphs, and documents. As an English major, this book was by far the most helpful book I read to improve my writing.

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Summary: Buy it, read it, become a better writer
Review: This book teaches you to reanimate dead writing, restoring action and personality to it, one sentence at a time. Starting from analysis and reconstruction using small number of rules, progressing to the philosophical question of why you should revise prose, this book remains interesting after multiple readings. I can't speak hightly enough of it. A true eye opener.

Rating:
Summary: Buy it, read it, become a better writer
Review: This book teaches you to reanimate dead writing, restoring action and personality to it, one sentence at a time. Starting from analysis and reconstruction using small number of rules, progressing to the philosophical question of why you should revise prose, this book remains interesting after multiple readings. I can't speak hightly enough of it. A true eye opener.

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Summary: Making the bureaucratic readable
Review: This slim writing guide by Prof. Lanham is a must have for anyone in the writing field, the business world or the government.

In under 150 pages, he attacks the "Little engine that couldn't," "is," & "to be," verbs, peoples' over use of prepositional phrases and the official dialoug.

"Revising Prose," uses strong verbs to get the Lanham's points across. HE breaks down his style and shows the reader how to use his "Paramedic Method," of reviewing and editing.

To hold his tradition in mind this review shall be short and to the point: students, politicians and the corporate world NEED this book to make themselves heard. Easy to follow and well written.

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Summary: Great to improve your writing
Review: Writing is easy--you just put down the words. Editing/revising is the tough part, yet the most important. Lanham uses a very easy to read style and easy to implement suggestions that help you make your writing better. One of the most helpful writing books I own.