University of Chicago Press
Wordcraft: The Complete Guide to Clear, Powerful Writing
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- Jack Hart
- University of Chicago Press
- Paperback
- 9780226749075
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- Language Arts & Disciplines > Writing - Nonfiction (Incl. Memoirs)
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Originally published in 2006 as A Writer's Coach, the book has been updated to address the needs of writers well beyond print journalists. Hart breaks the writing process into a series of manageable steps, from idea to polishing. Filled with real-world examples, both good and bad, Wordcraft shows how to bring such characteristics as force, brevity, clarity, rhythm, and color to any kind of writing.
Wordcraft now functions as a set with the second edition of Hart's book Storycraft, on the art of storytelling, also available from Chicago.
Author Bio
Jack Hart is an author, writing coach, and former managing editor at The Oregonian, where he also worked as a reporter, arts and leisure editor, Sunday magazine editor, training editor, and editor at large. He has additional reporting experience at two other newspapers, holds a University of Wisconsin doctorate in Mass Communications, taught at six universities, and was a tenured associate professor at the University of Oregon, where he served as the journalism school’s acting dean.
In 2012-13 he served as director of the school’s Portland campus, the George S. Turnbull Center.
At The Oregonian, Hart worked as an editor on four Pulitzer Prize winners and was the solo editor on two of them. He also edited national winners of the American Society of Newspaper Editors writing awards, the Ernie Pyle award, the Scripps-Howard business-writing award, the Overseas Press Club awards, the Headliners awards, and the Society of Professional Journalists feature-writing award.
He is the author of The Information Empire, a history of The Los Angeles Times; A Writer’s Coach: The Complete Guide to Writing Strategies That Work; Storycraft: A Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction; and Skookum Summer: A Novel of the Pacific Northwest.
Source: University of Oregon
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