How to Write Persuasively Today

How to Write Persuasively Today

by Carolyn Davis
How to Write Persuasively Today

How to Write Persuasively Today

by Carolyn Davis

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Overview

This book is a step-by-step guide to harnessing the power to persuade in a variety of forms of writing.

How to Write Persuasively Today is an authoritative handbook for getting your point across, a step-by-step how-to guide for making sure you say what you mean in the clearest, most effective way possible.

Drawing on over three decades of professional writing and speaking experience, author Carolyn Davis breaks down the challenges, issues, and potential pitfalls involved in persuasive writing, providing practical strategies and solutions for communicating with the utmost clarity, precision, force, and style. It is a presentation filled with vivid, often humorous real-life examples of writing and presentations of all kinds—one that also equips readers with the tools needed to assess and evaluate everything from advertising claims to political propaganda to survey results.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313378379
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 02/26/2010
Series: Greenwood Guides to Writing Series
Pages: 143
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Carolyn Davis is a professional librarian, researcher, and specialist in development issues.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

Chapter 1 What Am I Writing? 1

Chapter 2 Issues and Challenges 23

Chapter 3 Problems and Solutions 61

Chapter 4 Strategies for Success: Everything That Attracted Me to Reading Reports for School, College, and Business I Learned by the Fourth Grade 99

Chapter 5 Resources for the Future 133

Index 141

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