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  • Published: 15 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781607740322
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $49.99

How to Write It, Third Edition

A Complete Guide to Everything You'll Ever Write



A thoroughly revised and updated edition of this comprehensive guide to writing personal and professional documents with clarity, confidence, and style.

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.

  • Published: 15 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781607740322
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $49.99

About the author

Sandra E. Lamb

Sandra E. Lamb began her career as a technical writer, editor, and ghostwriter in the medical field. In the mid-eighties, she founded an advertising, public relations, and marketing corporation. During this time, she also instructed groups of corporate managers in the principles of effective writing and co-authored the book EQUITY SHARING. Currently, Lamb writes a humor column and is a free-lance writer for national magazines, specializing in women's issues. Her pieces have appeared in such magazines as Family Circle and Woman's Day.

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