Product Description

Clear, concise, effective, THE RANDOM HOUSE GUIDE TO GOOD WRITING is for anyone who wishes to communicate well in writing. Mitchell Ivers shows us how to master the medium and the message with an array of features: Precise guidelines on word usage, grammar, and punctuation--and how to decide with "rules" you can discard to suit your purpose; How to choose the tone and style appropriate to your audience and subject; The essential components of plot in fiction and structure in nonfiction, and much more.
An Alternate Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club
A Main Selection of the Writer's Digest Book Club

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #276599 in Books
• Published on: 1993-10-04
• Released on: 1993-10-04
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 6.84" h x .75" w x 4.24" l, .31 pounds
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 288 pages

Ingram
A comprehensive handbook designed to enhance good writing skills furnishes examples, exercises, and guidelines on grammar, punctuation, style, and language usage for articles, memos, letters, essays, fiction, and other types of writing. Reissue.

From the Publisher
This book isn't just useful to people who want to hone their writing skills; it is also useful to people in publishing -- as I found out when I looked at a copy. As someone who sees a lot of copyediting, and sees and does a lot of proofreading, some of the examples in this book are really very helpful. One of my favorites is Chapter Six: Usage -- very good for those of us who occasionally forget the difference between, say, "burglary" and "robbery"...

A. Krijgsman
Associate Managing Editor