Understanding Style: Practical Ways to Improve Your Writing

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Summary: Stylishly Simple
Review: I'm a mature student of creative writing and have been struggling to improve the quality of my writing, as opposed to my creativity. I came across this book through Amazon and I'm staggered by how valuable it has proved to be. The book is simple in format, there are three sections: "Good and bad writing"; "Choosing accurate, effective words"; and "Crafting clear, pleasing and coherent sentences." Each has several chapters in it which provide exercises and examples that help your prose to work, simply and clearly. This is not a heavyweight grammatical textbook, it is a straightforward workbook that will improve anyone's English: employee, student, creative, professional, academic, manager or executive. Joe Glaser has also created a web site where the exercises from the book can be downloaded, plus there are other links etc. to recommended style pages. Writing is important to how we think, clear writing helps produce creative, effective thinking - this is a book that will actually help your writing, and your communication.