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Use the online WritersDiet Test to identify paunchy prose, then follow the no-nonsense advice in the book to strengthen and tone your verbal muscles. Helen Sword is Professor and Director of the Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education at the University of Auckland. Her other recent publications include Stylish Academic Writing (Harvard University Press) and. The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing). If your sentences are weighed down with passives and prepositions, be-verbs and waste words, The WriterAEs Diet is for you. The book and the website enable writers to diagnose their writing for flab u passives and prepositions, weak verbs and waste words u and energise their work by stripping away unnecessary padding. Professor Helen Sword is a literary scholar and director of the Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education at the University of Auckland, USA. Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested In These Sponsored Links. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. The WriterAEs Diet offers a short, sharp introduction to great writing. The rules of good writing are deceptively simple but this book helps writers to see those principles at work, through examples by stylish authors from Charles Dickens to John McPhee.
To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. She teaches how to rely on concrete images rather than abstractions. She teaches the error of relying on adjectives and adverbs. Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Browse the New York Times best sellers in popular categories like Fiction, Nonfiction, Picture Books and more. Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested In These Sponsored Links. This shopping feature will continue to load items. She is the author most recently of Stylish Academic Writing (Harvard University Press, USA, 2012). She teaches everything to get you writing professionally. This book will help you energise your writing and strip unnecessary padding from your prose.
