Words Fail Me
by O'Conner, Patricia T.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-09-01
Publisher(s): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Summary
And not a minute too soon! Armed with our laptops and our PCs, we're the writing-est generation ever, cranking out e-mail, Web pages, electronic bulletin board postings, not to mention office memos, faxes, reports, newsletters, school papers, even memoirs and novels. But many of us were never taught how to write a sentence that makes sense, how to make sure our words do justice to our ideas. The result? Never have so many written so much so badly. Patricia T. O'Conner comes to the rescue with Words Fail Me, a practical and witty guide to the elements of good writing. She takes you through the writing process step by step. Pat O'Conner has done it again. So, there'll be no more staring blankly at an empty screen. Words Fail Me will charm the good writer out of you.
Author Biography
Patrcia T. O'Conner was an editor at the New York Times Book Review when she wrote Woe Is I. Her writing has appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times and Newsweek. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, Stewart Kellerman.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | vii | ||||
| Introduction | 1 | (8) | |||
| Part 1 Pull Yourself Together | |||||
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| Part 2 The Fundamental Things Apply | |||||
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| Part 3 Getting Better All the Time | |||||
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| Appendix | 222 | (1) | |||
| Bibliography | 223 | (1) | |||
| Index | 224 |
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