Word Up! How to Write Powerful Sentences and Paragraphs (And Everything You Build from Them)

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Lots of books can strengthen your writing. Few also leave you smiling. You’re looking at one: Word Up! How to Write Powerful Sentences and Paragraphs (And Everything You Build from Them)

Word Up! serves up writing tips and insights for writers and word lovers. It’s an eclectic collection of essays, more inspiration guide than style guide, complete with three indexes and a satisfyingly chunky glossary of terms related to grammar and usage. Word Up! does what too few books on writing do: it practices while preaching, shows while telling, uses powerful writing to talk about powerful writing.

Here's what Arthur Plotnik, author of Spunk and Bite, says about Word Up!: "Illuminating. If some of those sharp-witted classical rhetoricians were blogging in today’s idiom, they might sound like Marcia Riefer Johnston, delivering both quintessential and quirky writing tips along with charming, pointed asides. With bright style and nimble tips that even professional writers forget (or never knew), she channels the inspirations and lessons of her own writing career into a brisk giddyap for balky prose."

Do you read as much for pleasure as for information? Do you teach or study the craft of writing? If so, this book belongs on your shelf.

Book release date: April 27, 2013.

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