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Tell It Like It Is: A Guide to Clear and Honest Writing [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 320 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 212x146x30 mm, weight: 400 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 04-May-2023
  • Leidėjas: Little, Brown & Company
  • ISBN-10: 0316317136
  • ISBN-13: 9780316317139
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 320 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 212x146x30 mm, weight: 400 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 04-May-2023
  • Leidėjas: Little, Brown & Company
  • ISBN-10: 0316317136
  • ISBN-13: 9780316317139
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Raktažodžiai:
America's favorite writing coach returns with a guide to writing clearly and honestly in a world full of lies, propaganda, and misinformation.

The darker and more dystopian the future appears, the more influential public writers become. But with so much content vying for our attention, and so much misinformation and propaganda polluting public discourse, how can writers break through the noise to inform an increasingly busy, stressed, and overwhelmed audience?
 
In Tell It Like It Is, bestselling author, writing coach, and teacher Roy Peter Clark offers a succinct and practical guide to writing with clarity, honesty, and conviction. By analyzing stellar writing samples from a diverse collection of public writers, Clark highlights and explains the tools journalists, scientists, economists, fact-checkers, even storytellers use to engage, inform, and hook readers, and how best to deploy them in a variety of contexts. In doing so, he provides answers to some of the most pressing questions facing writers today:
 
How do I make hard facts—about pandemics, wars, natural disasters, social justice—easy reading?
How do I get readers to pay attention to what they need to know?
How do I help contribute to a culture of writing that combats misinformation and propaganda?
How do I instill hope into the hearts and minds of readers?
 
With Clark's trademark wit, insight, and compassion, Tell It Like It Is offers a uniquely practical and engaging guide to public writing in unprecedented times—and an urgently needed remedy for a dangerously confused world.
Preface xiii
Introduction: The Bright Light of Public Writing 3(8)
Part I Civic Clarity
1 Embrace the role of public writer
11(3)
2 Study good public writing--wherever you find it
14(6)
3 Ask yourself these questions to achieve civic clarity
20(4)
4 Slow down the pace of information, especially at points of complexity
24(5)
5 Imagine writing for a single curious reader
29(3)
6 Avoid jargon--or translate it
32(4)
7 Use as few numbers as will get the job done
36(2)
8 Lift the heavy cargo out of the text and put it in a chart or graphic
38(3)
9 Reveal how the reader can use the information
41(7)
10 Quote people who can make things clearer than you can
48(3)
11 Introduce a human being early. Let that person speak
51(3)
12 Develop a chronology
54(2)
13 Cool off. Set aside a draft to make sense of what you think you know
56(2)
14 Eliminate unnecessary information
58(4)
15 Introduce new or difficult elements one at a time
62(3)
16 Value repetition
65(2)
17 Compile lists
67(2)
18 Apply these tests to see whether you have achieved civic clarity
69(3)
19 Read the public writing on the wall
72(4)
20 To serve the largest audience, write within the first "circle of clarity"
76(7)
21 Write for both those in the know, and those who want to know
83(5)
22 Look for the apt analogy
88(6)
23 Tap into the power of the question
94(8)
24 Make all your writing strategies add up and work together
102(13)
Part II Telling Stories
25 Embrace storytelling as a virtue
115(2)
26 Learn the crucial difference between reports and stories
117(3)
27 Remember, "the bigger, the smaller"
120(4)
28 Descend into the underworld-
124(6)
29 Write in service of public ritual
130(7)
30 Frame your story as a mystery to solve
137(7)
31 Avoid the fallacy of the single cause
144(7)
32 Lift readers up when they're down
151(7)
33 Write public stories with a spirit of attention and care
158(15)
34 Write about restoration, not just loss
173(10)
Part III Honesty and Candor
35 Show it like it is
183(5)
36 See it, record it, share it
188(7)
37 Be clear about where you "stand" as a public writer
195(5)
38 Measure your distance from neutrality
200(6)
39 Write to be engaged with the community you serve
206(4)
40 Learn the language of advocacy and partisanship
210(4)
41 Write it like it is
214(13)
42 Consider when an untruth becomes a lie
227(5)
43 Debunk misinformation without calling more attention to it
232(6)
44 Write with integrity in the plain style
238(6)
45 Check facts in the public interest
244(7)
46 See things anew as a conceptual writer
251(9)
47 Learn the best practices of science writers
260(9)
48 Teach the next generation of public writers
269(6)
49 Share the spirit of good writing
275(4)
50 Keep reading to perfect your craft
279(6)
Acknowledgments 285(4)
Permissions Acknowledgments 289(2)
Index 291
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 twenty books on writing and journalism, including Writing Tools, Murder Your Darlings, The Art of X-Ray Reading, How to Write Short, and The Glamour of Grammar. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he contributes columns to the Tampa Bay Times and where a literary prize has been named in his honor.