The Secret of Writing Well: SELF-EDITING for Teens and Adults: A How-To Book for Proofreading, Editing, and Polishing Your Writing (The Writing Well

The Secret of Writing Well: SELF-EDITING for Teens and Adults: A How-To Book for Proofreading, Editing, and Polishing Your Writing (The Writing Well

Consider this book your private tutor and lifesaver. "Why did I not learn all this in school?" you will ask, as you flip through this funny, friendly writing guide. The chapters "All the Mistakes You Never Knew Were Mistakes," "Verbal Insanity," and "Delete Blah, Blah, Blah" tell you immediately that this book is not a typical grammar book. In fact, it is a conversation--often humorous--between you and a teacher turned writer turned editor. If she could sit down with you as your personal writing coach, determined to make a good, maybe even great, writer out of you, she would use these strategies. She would be entertaining and extremely candid. You would improve quickly and thank her, and you would return often to fine tune your skills. Best of all, you would pass this book on to others who wish that their writing could be as good as yours.