Writing Guides

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Your Writing Companion contains advice and strategies from all six books. Discover the practicality and quality of these writing guides while learning great strategies for writing powerfully.

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Concise Guide to Technical and Academic Writing

Technical and academic writing share one thing in common: they present focused information to a targeted audience to accomplish a specific purpose. Technical and academic writing can be, and need to be, good writing. By presenting the principles of good writing, strategies for clear technical and academic writing, and essentials of writing mechanics, this concise guide shows you how to write well. Sample topics: paragraph format, sentence structure, concise writing, headings and seriation, objectivity, and style. Learn to think about your writing in a new way. Learn to write in a straightforward, clear, and engaging manner that makes your point and gets the response you desire. If you write technical or academic documents, you need this book.

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300 Days of Better Writing

300 strategies for improving your writing. These powerful, easy-to-use strategies will help you write clearly, effectively, and correctly. This book answers the question: “How can I improve my writing today?” Also contains a topic index so you can study major themes.

“…300 Days of Better Writing is a choice pick.” —Midwest Book Review

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Which Word Do I Use?

A quickie guide to the most confusing word pairs

This book does not contain one-sentence definitions. Instead, you get definitions, explanations, guidance on using the words, and examples with discussion. You will learn to use these words so you don’t have to look them up, and so you can be confident about your writing.

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Zen Comma

Commas are confusing. Unlike other types of punctuation, they are used in many ways. If you want to write clearly and professionally, you need to use commas correctly. Zen Comma will show you how.

Zen Comma uses examples, instructions, and anecdotes to teach you the 14 major uses for commas and the most common errors. It also contains exercises to help pinpoint the comma rules you need to learn.

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Essential Writing Skills Series

Are you looking for writing instruction that focuses on your specific needs? In this book series you can select the ebook that’s right for you. Each book focuses on one or two essential topics to help you improve your writing.

There are three books in the series, Perfect Paragraph & Super Sentences, Strategies for Concise Writing, Common Sense Guide to Grammar and Punctuation.

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Bang! Writing with Impact

BANGcover BANG! is THE guide for writing with impact. Don’t waste your time on books that spend pages and pages on how people have used strategies, the history of writing, or similar meaningless information. Bang! is for people who have work to do.

This book tells you how to do exactly what you are trying to do: make your readers pay attention. Bang! contains over 100 strategies for making an impact with your writing. Each strategy is explained in real terms and demonstrated through examples.

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Precise Edit Training Manual

trainingmanualcover The Precise Edit Training Manual provides comprehensive instruction on the 29 most common editing strategies we use and problems we fix. Each topic is fully explained with examples and strategies for editing.