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Dictionary of Concise Writing: More Than 10,000 Alternatives to Wordy Phrases

Dictionary of Concise Writing: More Than 10,000 Alternatives to Wordy Phrases

by RichardLederer (Author), RobertHartwellFiske (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

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Synopsis

Concise alternatives for thousands of common, wordy phrases are provided in this guide to clean, strong prose. Updated and revised with hundreds of new entries, this new edition can tidy up any writer's long-winded phraseology with such helpful replacements as because for based on the fact that, cease for put an end to, and violate for fail to comply with.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 420
 Edition: 2nd Revised edition
 Publisher: Marion Street Press Inc.
Published: 28 Sep 2006
ISBN 10: 1933338121
ISBN 13: 9781933338125

Media Reviews
Two of the better usage books to come down the road. --Zay Smith, Chicago Sun-Times, on The Dictionary of Concise Writing and The Dimwit's Dictionary
Author Bio
Robert Hartwell Fiske is the editor and publisher of The Vocabula Review and the author of The Dictionary of Disagreeable English and The Dimwit's Dictionary. He lives in Rockwell, Massachusetts. Richard Lederer is the author of more than 3,000 books and articles about language and humor, including A Man of My Words. He is the author of the syndicated column, Looking at Language. He lives in Costa Mesa, California.