Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers Fully Revised Edition

This brisk and pungent guide to the use of words as tools of communication is written primarily for journalists, yet its lessons are of immense value to all who face the problem of giving information, whether to the general public or within business, professional or social organizations. What makes a good English sentence? How should you rewrite a bad one? What cliches and other word-traps are to be avoided? How do you shorten unnecessarily verbose source-material? Using a wealth of examples drawn from British and American newspapers,Essential Englishis an indispensable guide for all who have to convey information by the written or printed word.Evans, Harold is the author of 'Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers Fully Revised Edition' with ISBN 9780712664479 and ISBN 0712664475.