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Help! for Writers; 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces
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Help! for Writers; 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces Hardcover - 2011 - 1st Edition

by Roy Peter Clark

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  • Hardcover
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New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2011 Little, Brown and Company, New York. 2011. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O address label on the front pastedown and a small remainder mark on the textblock top. Book Condition: Near Fine. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($22.99); trace bumping to head and tail. Black boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 296 pp 8vo. Writers can have problems writing; the story is too long, the story is too short, there is too much material, revisions are needed, and of course writer's block. This book outlines seven steps of the writing process, from getting organized to building a draft to make it better. For each step there are three problems identified with workable solutions for all of them- 210 in total. A clean very presentable copy.
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  • Title Help! for Writers; 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces
  • Author Roy Peter Clark
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little, Brown and Company, New York, NY
  • Date 2011
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 011333
  • ISBN 9780316126717 / 0316126713
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.75 x 6 x 1 in (22.23 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Report writing, English language - Rhetoric
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011004683
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.042

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Roy Peter Clark is senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, one of the most prestigious schools for journalists in the world. He has taught writing at every level -- from schoolchildren to Pulitzer Prize-winning authors -- for more than forty years.

A writer who teaches and a teacher who writes, he has authored or edited nineteen books on writing and journalism, including The Art of X-Ray Reading, How to Write Short, Writing Tools, The Glamour of Grammar, and Help! for Writers. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he is considered a garage-band legend.