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An Absolutely Phony Guide
Three Rivers Press
April 2011
On Sale: April 5, 2011
272 pages ISBN: 0307719588 EAN: 9780307719584 Hardcover
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Still clinging to your dog-eared dictionary? So attached to The Elements of Style that you named your rabbits Strunk and White? Maybe youβre a beleaguered reporter, or a type-A newspaper reader who unwinds by e-mailing the editor about whether βtweetβ is a verb? Itβs time to face up to reality: Writing clearly, checking facts, and correcting typos are dying arts. Whether youβre a jaded producer of media or a nitpicking consumer of it, this book will help you to embrace, not resist, the lowering of standards for the written word! Part dictionary, part journalism textbook, part grammar and writing manual, Write More Good is a βcomprehensiveβ βguideβ to todayβs βmedia,β in all its ambulance-chasing, story-fabricating, money-hemorrhaging glory. (LEGAL DISCLAIMER: The authors are not responsible for consequences that may result from actually using this book as a dictionary, textbook, or grammar and writing manual.)
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