A Writer's Coach: An Editor's Guide to Words That Work
Language: English
Published by Pantheon Books, New York, 2006
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- Hardcover
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- Title
- A Writer's Coach: An Editor's Guide to Words That Work
- Author
- Hart, Jack; Jack Hart
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books, New York
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Like New
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0375423273
- ISBN 13
- 9780375423277
- Illustrator
- Randy Cox (Author Photo); Brian Barth (Jacket Design)
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Academic, Scholarly, Research, Antiques, Rare Bks, 1st Eds, Signed Copies, Language Studies, Linguistics, Phonetics, Speech
In A Writer’s Coach, Jack Hart–a managing editor at The Oregonian–shares the wisdom with which he has coached reporters to Pulitzer Prize—winning success. He gives invaluable advice on gathering ideas, writing theme statements and outlines, and using the “ladder of abstraction” to add variety and texture to writing. He provides a lexicon of lead sentences. He shares his ideas for composing and sustaining powerful writing, and for ensuring that what you write will be accessible to your audience. Discussing the ways writers can trip themselves up–procrastination, writer’s block, and excessive polishing, to name just a few–Hart demonstrates how to overcome each obstacle. Excerpts from writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Joan Didion, and from articles gathered from magazines and newspapers, provide inspiration and instructive examples of both inadequate and exemplary writing.
Like a personal, portable writing coach, A Writer’s Coach will be a boon to writers, editors, teachers, and students.
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