Writer's Diet, The, VitalSource eText

Helen Sword, University of Auckland
Title Writer's Diet, The, VitalSource eText
Edition 1
ISBN 9781486003747
ISBN 10 1486003745
Published 13/07/2012
Published by Pearson New Zealand
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Format Digital Vital Source
 
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The Writer's Diet

Is your writing flabby or fit?

The Writer's Diet will help you energise your writing, boost your verbal fitness levels and strip unnecessary padding from your prose.

In contrast to most other writing and editing guides, The Writer’s Diet offers no ‘big picture’ advice on argument or audience, no instruction on composition or paragraph structure, no primer on grammar and punctuation. Instead, this book zeroes in on five common problems that frequently plague unfit sentences - weakness and excess in verbs, nouns, prepositions, adjectives/adverbs, and ‘waste words’.

Writers at every level, from students to professionals, will benefit from The Writer’s Diet workout and enjoy the experience. Before long, you will find yourself producing stylish, energetic prose every time you put pen to paper.

Take the 'Wasteline Test' @ www.writersdiet.ac.nz

Author biography
Helen Sword earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and taught in the English Department at Indiana University before moving to New Zealand, where she now works as a senior lecturer in the Centre for Academic Development at the University of Auckland. Her publications include two books on modernist literature, Engendering Inspiration (1995) and Ghostwriting Modernism (2002). The Writer’s Diet draws on her extensive experience as a writer, editor and teacher of academic writing.