Essential English: For Journalists, Editors and Writers

by Harold Evans and Gillan Crawford

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 clich s and other word-traps are to be avoided? Using a wealth of examples drawn from British...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712664475
• ISBN13: 9780712664479
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.5"