The Dictionary of Concise Writing: More Than 10,000 Alternatives to Wordy Phrases

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Marion Street Press, 2006 - 399 páginas
Concise alternatives for thousands of common, wordy phrases are provided in this guide to clean, strong prose. Updated and revised with hundreds of new entries, this new edition can tidy up any writer's long-winded phraseology with such helpful replacements as "because" for "based on the fact that," "cease" for "put an end to," and "violate" for "fail to comply with."

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The Dictionary of Concise Writing: 10,000 Alternatives to Wordy Phrases
Robert Hartwell Fiske
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Robert Hartwell Fiske is the editor and publisher of "The Vocabula Review "and the author of "The Dictionary of Disagreeable English "and "The Dimwit's Dictionary." He lives in Rockwell, Massachusetts. Richard Lederer is the author of more than 3,000 books and articles about language and humor, including "A Man of My Words." He is the author of the syndicated column, "Looking at Language." He lives in Costa Mesa, California.

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TítuloThe Dictionary of Concise Writing: More Than 10,000 Alternatives to Wordy Phrases
AutorRobert Hartwell Fiske
Edição2, ilustrada
EditoraMarion Street Press, 2006
Original deUniversidade de Cornell
Digitalizado9 Ago 2011
ISBN1933338121, 9781933338125
Número de páginas399 páginas
  
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