A Writer's Coach: An Editor's Guide to Words That Work

Hart, Jack R.

ISBN 10: 0375423273 / ISBN 13: 9780375423277

Published by Pantheon, New York, 2006

About this Item

Stated first edition, later printing

Hardcover with dust jacket

Condition: Excellent
Clean pages
Tight binding
Signed and inscribed by the author, with an additional signature on the title page

Published by Pantheon Books, New York, 2006

A Writer?s Coach by Jack Hart is a respected guide to writing and storytelling.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1775365412307

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Writer's Coach: An Editor's Guide to Words That Work
• Publisher: Pantheon, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375423273
• ISBN 13: 9780375423277
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: 1.1W x 6.25H x 9.5D inches 1.1 inches width by 6.25 inches height by 9.5 inches depth
• Weight: 591.938 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A practical, innovative step-by-step approach to the writing process from one of the most acclaimed writing coaches in the country

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.

About the Author

Jack Hart is a managing editor and writing coach at The Oregonian. Formerly a professor at the University of Oregon, he has also taught at several other universities, at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism, at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, and at writers’ conferences throughout the United States. He lives in Portland.