Download or read book Quick Fixes for Business Writing An Eight Step Editing Process to Find and Correct Common Readability Problems written by Jim Taylor and published by Productive Publications. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quick fixes for business writing breaks down the editorial process into a series of tasks which are designed to improve the readability of the final product. It will be invaluable to you; regardless of whether you are a novice or a proficient editor. This book helps you to develop a systematic eight-step approach. It identifies functions that you may have been performing only intuitively. It will provide you with techniques to improve your written material.
Download or read book Bitcoin Mania written by Learn2succeed.com Incorporated and published by Productive Publications. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightfully cynical book which looks at the paper fiat currencies which we use everyday and questions how long they can survive. Could worthless paper be replaced by an ingenious worldwide cryptocurrency called "Bitcoin" which threatens to overturn the tables of traditional fiat money changers?
Download or read book Quill Quire written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proofreading Revising Editing Skills Success in 20 Minutes a Day written by Brady Smith and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this eBook, you'll learn the principles of grammar and how to manipulate your words until they're just right. Strengthen your revising and editing skills and become a clear and consistent writer." --
Download or read book Error free Writing written by Robin A. Cormier and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who's ever had to edit or proofread his or her own work knows how difficult and time-consuming it can be. You read and re-read your document, but errors still manage to slip by. Then, once it's too late to make changes to your document, the same errors have a maddening way of becoming glaringly obvious. And nothing is more frustrating than having an important business letter, memo, or resume sabotaged by an embarrassing error. Error-Free Writing gives you a simple, proven four-step writing and editing method that will help you produce error-free documents virtually every time. It also makes the writing process itself easier, while greatly reducing the deadline-related stress many business professionals experience when writing.
Download or read book How to Edit Writing written by Jaiden Pemton and published by Creative Writing. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you just finished writing your masterpiece, but don't know how to approach the editing stage? Or have you decided to take on a role as an editor for the work of other writers, and don't know where to start? Do you feel unclear about how to distinguish and use the elements of the editing process? How to Edit Writing is the guide you need! We will teach you how to edit writing in 7 easy steps. This guide is designed to provide you with all the tools you need in a concise, easy to understand format that will answer all your burning questions and get you on your way to thorough and successful editing. To be a successful editor, you must know how to divide your work into stages, make use of reading aloud, take things one step at a time, deeply engage with the content at hand, and utilize strategies such as isolating text and working in reverse. You must know how to edit your content in such a way that readers have no choice but to respect the work and keep reading. How to Edit Writing will provide you with an in-depth look into each of the elements of editing, help you avoid the common mistakes made in the editing stage, and urge you to develop the necessary skills for releasing engaging, well-paced, grammatically correct content, free of spelling, punctuation, dialogue, and flow errors. In a comprehensive step-by-step reference format, each chapter corresponds to a specific element of the editing process. The clear-cut organization makes it simple to follow along and refer back to areas you still feel confused about as you go. This guide is complete with coherent examples to help you distinguish between each element and log them into your long-term memory. You will find exclusive tips and tricks which are designed to aid in your editing process and set you apart from other editors in the industry. With this guide, you can move step-by-step, taking the editing process at your own pace and having all of your major questions answered. The examples provided will help you to model your work and gain a more thorough understanding. The tips, tricks, and ideas will help you to avoid the most common mistakes among editors, as well as ways to keep your audience engaged from start to finish. YOU'LL LEARN: The stages of editing: structural, line editing, and copy editing Necessary conversations to have between writers and editors The benefits of reading aloud to yourself and others How to separate the smaller elements into manageable chunks How to maintain consistency How to keep readers engaged How to isolate text in order to determine its purpose How to engage more deeply with the text in front of you How to critically evaluate dialogue and general flow How to monitor pacing and organization How to edit in reverse And so much more! Whether you're just starting on the journey of editing and need to develop a clearer understanding of the elements, or have been at it for a while and are looking for fresh perspectives and tips for further develop how you perfect your craft, this guide is the companion you need. Let's get started!
Download or read book Eight Step Editing written by Jim Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chimes of a Lost Cathedral written by Janet Fitch and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Russian woman comes into her own in the midst of revolution and civil war in this "brilliant" novel set in "a world of furious beauty" (Los Angeles Review of Books). After the loves and betrayals of The Revolution of Marina M., young poet Marina Makarova finds herself alone amid the devastation of the Russian Civil War -- pregnant and adrift, forced to rely on her own resourcefulness to find a place to wait out the birth of her child and eventually make her way back to her native city, Petrograd. After two years of revolution, the city that was once St. Petersburg is almost unrecognizable, the haunted, half-emptied, starving Capital of Once Had Been, its streets teeming with homeless children. Moved by their plight, though hardly better off herself, she takes on the challenge of caring for these orphans, until they become the tool of tragedy from an unexpected direction. Shaped by her country's ordeals and her own trials -- betrayal and privation and inconceivable loss -- Marina evolves as a poet and a woman of sensibility and substance hardly imaginable at the beginning of her transformative odyssey. Chimes of a Lost Cathedral is the culmination of one woman's s journey through some of the most dramatic events of the last century -- the epic story of an artist who discovers her full power, passion, and creativity just as her revolution reveals its true direction for the future.
Download or read book Zig Zag written by Keith Sawyer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A science-backed method to maximize creative potential in any sphere of life With the prevalence of computer technology and outsourcing, new jobs and fulfilling lives will rely heavily on creativity and innovation. Keith Sawyer draws from his expansive research of the creative journey, exceptional creators, creative abilities, and world-changing innovations to create an accessible, eight-step program to increasing anyone's creative potential. Sawyer reveals the surprising secrets of highly creative people (such as learning to ask better questions when faced with a problem), demonstrates how to come up with better ideas, and explains how to carry those ideas to fruition most effectively. This science-backed, step-by step method can maximize our creative potential in any sphere of life. Offers a proven method for developing new ideas and creative problem-solving no matter what your profession Includes an eight-step method, 30 practices, and more than 100 techniques that can be launched at any point in a creative journey Psychologist, jazz pianist, and author Keith Sawyer studied with world-famous creativity expert Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Sawyer's book offers a wealth of easy to apply strategies and ideas for anyone who wants to tap into their creative power.
Download or read book The Road to Readability written by Digby Whitman and published by Lawrence Ragan Communications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1984-07 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shut Up and Edit written by C. L. S. Editing and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-19 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shut Up and Edit is an entertaining, yet practical, guide for new and experienced authors who want to better their writing and revision skills through self-editing. In this book, the staff of CLS Editing lead the user through the keys to self-editing success, creating the right environment, completing content and line edits, choosing and using automatic editing and audio software, preparing a manuscript for submission, and selecting professional editing services.Anecdotes, detailed examples, worksheets, diagrams, and easy to remember tips accompany CLS Editing's forty-three point Quick Edit List to help the user quickly identify and correct some of the most common errors made in fiction manuscripts such as tense, point of view, punctuation, and style issues. Though this manual cannot replace a professional editor, it will help authors develop better proofreading and writing habits by offering easy to understand tips, tricks, and lessons on how to create a cleaner, more powerful manuscript.
Download or read book Why Your Writing Sucks written by Marcia Ross and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-22 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget those 200-page books that claim to teach brevity! Why Your Writing Sucks is today's short-and-sweet route to better writing at work. In this concise, cheerful, informed guide, you'll find grammar-free, common-sense, actionable advice to raise your writing game. ---- Think you're a bad writer? This book will help you. Think you're a good writer? This book will make you better. Think you're a great writer? This book is critical. No kidding. There are too many words floating around in memos, emails, reports. Nobody wants to read long prose in a work setting, no matter how well crafted. Get to the point! Marcia will get you there - and you'll get the outcome you're looking for. Suzanne Tyson, Founder, HigherEdPoints.com Why your Writing Sucks is aimed at adequate writers that could be good, and good writers that seek excellence. The business/engineering students I graduate often find that a contract or proposal, or even their own advancement, will depend on a piece of their writing. Ross brings a number of clear rules to those efforts. Short, amusing and succinct - whether just coming into the business world, looking to improve, or wanting to avoid bad habits, business people will find Why your Writing Sucks an easy, useful read. Dr. Philip Anderson, B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., Ph.D., University of Toronto ------ You get easy-to-apply advice on: Composing: 7 actions to up your game Editing: 4 tricks (and some games!) to help you edit better BARFing - how to knock down inner barriers and get words on the page! Discover how to: Write more effectively, to get better business results Write more easily and less painfully Advance your career through improved communication skills. What else? Cheerful, readable writing style Practical tips from a 20-year career in business writing and editing An 80/20 approach: make the 20% of changes that will make an 80% difference in your writing
Download or read book Self Editing for Fiction Writers Second Edition written by Renni Browne and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of books have been written on the art of writing. Here at last is a book by two professional editors to teach writers the techniques of the editing trade that turn promising manuscripts into published novels and short stories. In this completely revised and updated second edition, Renni Browne and Dave King teach you, the writer, how to apply the editing techniques they have developed to your own work. Chapters on dialogue, exposition, point of view, interior monologue, and other techniques take you through the same processes an expert editor would go through to perfect your manuscript. Each point is illustrated with examples, many drawn from the hundreds of books Browne and King have edited.
Download or read book Why I Write written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Download or read book Editor Publisher written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special features, such as syndicate directories, annual newspaper linage tabulations, etc., appear as separately paged sections of regular issues.
Download or read book The Synonym Finder written by J. I. Rodale and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 3402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1961 by the founder of Rodale Inc., The Synonym Finder continues to be a practical reference tool for every home and office. This thesaurus contains more than 1 million synonyms, arranged alphabetically, with separate subdivisions for the different parts of speech and meanings of the same word.
Download or read book Editor Proof Your Writing written by Don McNair and published by Linden Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t let simple mistakes ruin your book’s chances! If you’re not getting published, you may suffer from foggy writing—writing that’s full of unnecessary, misused, and overused words. Foggy writing drives editors crazy, and it’s the number one reason most manuscripts are rejected on first glance. Let veteran editor Don McNair show you how to clear up your foggy writing and produce sparkling copy that will attract agents, editors, readers, and sales. Editor-Proof Your Writing will show you how to avoid fatal writing mistakes by eliminating unnecessary words—and in the process you’ll strengthen your book’s action, invigorate your dialogue, and make your writing crackle with life. Containing 21 simple, straightforward principles, Editor-Proof Your Writing teaches how to edit weak verb forms, strip away author intrusions, ban redundancies, eliminate foggy phrases, correct passive-voice sentences, slash misused and overused words, and fix other writing mistakes. A must-have addition to every writer’s toolkit, Editor-Proof Your Writing won’t just make your writing clearer; it will make you a better writer — more expressive, more entertaining, and more likely to sell.
