How to Write It: A Complete Guide to Everything You'll Ever Write

By Sandra Lamb

Book Overview

Write personal and professional communications with clarity, confidence, and style. How to Write It is the essential resource for eloquent personal and professional self-expression. Award-winning journalist Sandra E. Lamb transforms even reluctant scribblers into articulate wordsmiths by providing compelling examples of nearly every type and form of written communication. Completely updated and expanded, the new third edition offers hundreds of handy word, phrase, and sentence lists, precisely crafted sample paragraphs, and professionally designed document layouts. How to Write It is a must-own for students, teachers, authors, journalists, bloggers, managers, and anyone who doesn't have time to wade through a massive style guide but needs a friendly desk reference. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580080014
• ISBN13: 9781580080019
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Put this book next to your dictionary

This is one of those books that is so incredibly useful and so easy to read, you have to wonder why no one thought to write one like it before now. I got the book to check out the email section, but was literally thunderstruck by all of the other fantastic writing examples and templates. I think this would be a great book to give a graduate, because it has examples for writing many of life's "must-to's", such as thank you...

Stuff you won't find elsewhere, very handy

How to Write It is written by an experienced writer who knows what she's talking about. It's especially worth seeking out for some of the templates it features, including several related to public relations projects (for example, how to write a pitch letter, press release, and backgrounder). Lots of social and job-search related guidance, for those whose skills in those areas are rusty from disuse. And for the young person...

A good correspondence guide for the new millennium

Whether we're looking for work, expressing our sympathy, or voicing a complaint, life is full of situations in which a well-written letter can make a big difference. Technology has made us all more casual with our communication, but How to Write It is a good guide to review before you compose any important message. This book helps you organize your thoughts before writing; it also helps you be a more positive communicator...

essential reference work

Short of teaching you how to write War and Peace, this marvelous reference book covers absolutely all the bases. Business letters, career-oriented letters and personal writing of all kinds are included. Everybody's library needs this--and your kids will crib from it.