50 Essential Strategies

One of the most prominent writing instructors in the United States, Roy Peter Clark, provides a toolkit from which authors of all types may take inspiration. Writing is a skill that can be learned, according to Roy Peter Clark; you only need instruments, not rules. This book penned by Clark, 50 Essential Strategies, summarizes decades of knowledge into 50 techniques that will make any writer more fluent and successful.

50 Essential Strategies covers all topics, from the most elementary ("Tool 5: Mind those modifiers") to the most advanced ("Tool 34: Transform your notepad into a camera") writing techniques. It even gives you over 200 samples to analyze, from fiction and media, to illustrate each topic.

Overall, they are fifty useful, memorable, and practical tools for students, budding authors, and writers of memos, emails, presentations, and even love letters! In one compact and approachable book, Roy Peter Clark's masterwork imparts a lifetime's worth of practical wisdom. It should be a required textbook in every high school.

Author: Roy Peter Clark

Year of Release: 2006

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