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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 26, 2008.
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Links to the sample content from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn and the Improve Your Writing resources.
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 25, 2008.
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Publishing professional Pamela Rice Hahn outlines simple steps for you to follow for various types of writing, including:
- Social writing, such as thank-you and get-well notes, congratulatory messages, and invitation responses
- Journalism, such as letters to the editor, press releases, and freelance article writing
- Personal and biographical essays
- Business writing, including sales letters, requests for proposals, and press packets
With this practical guide, you’ll learn to choose the appropriate tone, use the correct format, and communicate effectively. Whether for school, for work, or just for fun, writing will be a chore no more!
View the Table of Contents to get a better understanding of what is covered in this book:
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 24, 2008.
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- Being a good, effective writer is one of the best ways to advance in your career, no matter what it might be.
- Knowing all the proper writing etiquettes will help you maintain good friendships-from typing up proper e-mails to writing thoughtful personal letters.
- Writing well will convey to others your knowledge and intelligence, garnering for you the respect that you deserve.
- If you are taking classes, you need strong writing skills to get top grades.
- Being able to write well enables you to put into words your thoughts, feelings, and ideas in a way that may move others.
- You must be able to write well to teach others how to write, including helping your children with homework.
- Writing is a wonderful way to relax and keep track of your life.
- Being able to craft well-written and clear business letters may prove rewarding (especially if the letter is a complaint).
- From invitations to essays to reminder notes to fax cover sheets-our daily lives are constantly filled with activities requiring the written word.
- Someday you could write a bestseller!
–from
The Everything Improve Your Writing Book
by Pamela Rice Hahn
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Author Letter:
Dear Reader,
Writing isn’t some sort of mystical process. And a writer isn’t a magician. An artist, maybe. I like to think that I sometimes sculpt and draw pictures with words. Other times, the words I choose instruct and teach. Sometimes, I use them to persuade and convince.
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 22, 2008.
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Academic writing includes research papers, master’s theses, and dissertations.
“Academic writing sometimes seems like a tricky task because most disciplines want you to use certain conventions. As with any other writing project, you should read papers and books in the relevant discipline before writing your own papers.” –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 21, 2008.
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Business writing can range from writing announcements, formal letters and e-mail, proposals and requests for proposal (RFP), press packets, publicity, and sales letters. Business Writing Guides help point you in the correct directions by providing instruction on how to complete specific business writing tasks. Business Style Guides further help by showing you how to adapt your writing so that it complies with what’s expected in business writing.
“Success in business relies on effective communication, which can take many forms. Understanding the particular formats needed for specific business writing tasks is the first step in achieving that necessary ability to communicate effectively.” –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 20, 2008.
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These guides will help you learn what copyeditors do, what they look for when they edit a manuscript, and how they develop the editorial judgment needed to make editing decisions.
The copy editor’s job is usually associated with correcting grammar errors in a work. But it can include making other changes, such as adapting a work to match the intended readership level.
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 19, 2008.
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A copyright is an expression of the ownership of a work, which can include the written word, artwork, movies, songs and other forms of music, and television shows
A copyright is the law that covers only the form or manner in which ideas or information have been manifested, often referred to as the “form of material expression.” Copyright is not designed or intended to cover the actual idea, concept, fact, style, or technique which is exemplified in or represented by the work; it covers how that idea, concept, fact, style, or technique is expressed by the owner of the copyright. –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 18, 2008.
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Once you get your first draft onto the page, the real work begins: It’s time to edit your writing so that your words convey what you intended.
Write, delete, and copy and paste (what was once known as editing), and then write some more. –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 17, 2008.
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Mastering how to structure and write an essay is a valuable skill that will have a positive impact on all of your writing.
In one form or another, the essay is the basic structure of almost every form of nonfiction writing, such as editorials and opinion pieces, legal opinions, magazine articles, newspaper features, speeches, and report summaries. The principles of essay writing can also be applied to descriptive passages in fiction or entire works of nonfiction,… –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
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A professional writer since 1984, Pamela Rice Hahn is the author of more than 20 published books.