Tell It Like It Is - A Guide to Clear and Honest Writing

"In Tell It Like It Is, bestselling author, writing coach, and teacher Roy Peter Clark offers a succinct and practical guide to writing with clarity, honesty, and conviction. By analyzing stellar writing samples from a wonderfully diverse collection of public writers, Clark highlights and explains the tools journalists, scientists, economists, fact-checkers, even storytellers and poets use to engage, inform, and hook readers, and how best to deploy them in a variety of contexts. In doing so, he provides answers to some of the most pressing questions facing writers today"--

About the author

Roy Peter Clark is senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, one of the most prestigious schools for journalists in the world. A writer who teaches and a teacher who writes, he has authored or edited twenty books on writing and journalism, including Writing Tools, Murder Your Darlings, and The Art of X‑Ray Reading.

Summary

America's favourite writing coach and bestselling author returns with an "indispensable" guide (Diana K. Sugg, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter) to writing clearly and honestly in a world full of lies, propaganda, and misinformation.

Foreword

America's favourite writing coach and bestselling author returns with an "indispensable" guide (Diana K. Sugg, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter) to writing clearly and honestly in a world full of lies, propaganda, and misinformation.

Product details

• Authors: Roy Peter Clark, Clark Roy Peter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.08.2023
• EAN: 9780316317139
• ISBN: 978-0-316-31713-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 212 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 400 g
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Style Manuals, Writing & editing guides, Language learning: writing skills, Writing skills, Writing and editing guides, Creative writing and creative writing guides, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Composition