Writing Tools : 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer - Roy Peter Clark

Writing Tools

50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

By: Roy Peter Clark

Paperback | 1 March 2008 | Edition Number 1

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'Tools Not Rules': here are 50 essential ones that writers of all kinds can use every day.

Roy Peter Clark - the most influential writing teacher in the US - collects lifelong wisdom into 50 essential tools for writers of all kinds. Clark has whittled down almost 30 years of experience in journalism (writing and teaching) into Writing Tools, a series of 50 short essays on different aspects of writing. Organised into four sections, 'Nuts and Bolts', 'Special Effects', 'Blueprints for Stories', and 'Useful Habits', Writing Tools is infused with more than 200 examples from journalism and literature to illustrate Clark's points.

Accessible, entertaining, inspiring, and above all, useful for every type of writer, from high school student to novelist, Writing Tools is destined to become a classic.

About the Author

Roy Peter Clark, has a Ph.D. in medieval literature and is Vice President and Senior Scholar of the world-renowned Poynter Institute. The author or editor of 14 professional books, he is founding director of the National Writer's Workshops, regional conferences that attract 5,000 writers annually.
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