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

Fiske, Robert Hartwell

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ISBN 10: 1933338121 ISBN 13: 9781933338125

Casa editrice: Marion Street Pr, 2006

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

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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Book by Fiske Robert Hartwell

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• Editore: Marion Street Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1933338121
• ISBN 13: 9781933338125
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 399