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Writing for Business
and Pleasure
by
Stephen Wilbers
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Quote of the week
“Modern
writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of
their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer.
It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already
been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by
sheer humbug.”
–
George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”
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I’d like to hear from you. You
can reach me by
e-mail
or by U.S. mail at Stephen Wilbers,
P.O. Box
19114, Minneapolis, MN 55419.
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In memory of three beloved Minnesota authors
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Paul Gruchow
(1947-2004)
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Carol Bly
(1930-2007) |
John Hassler
(1933-2008) |
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Stephen Wilbers is a
writing consultant, author, and syndicated columnist. Since 1983 he has
offered training seminars in effective writing to more than 6,500 business,
technical, legal, and academic writers.
In addition to
offering on-site training seminars, he has taught in the University of
Minnesota’s Management of Technology Program in the Center for the
Development of Technological Leadership, the Carlson School of Management’s
M.B.A. Program, the Program in American Studies, and the Program in Creative
and Professional Writing. In 1995 he won an Outstanding Faculty Award for
his teaching in Hamline University’s Graduate Public Administration Program.
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His syndicated column on effective business
writing appears in
the
Minneapolis Star
Tribune, the
Orange County Register, and
other publications.
He has published two collections of his
columns,
Writing for Business
(winner of
a 1994 Minnesota Book Award) and
Writing
by Wilbers. In addition,
his most recent book,
Keys to Great Writing
(advice on how to write with clarity,
emphasis, and style), is now available in paperback.
He recently completed a collection of poems on
the life of
Ernest Oberholtzer,
the gentle giant who helped save the Boundary Waters
Canoe Area from development, and he is now working on a humorous book of writing
instruction,
A Grammatical Affair:
A Romance with Language,
which offers a review of common writing errors in the form of a sexy,
wildly romantic, heartbreaking, sappy love story.
Dr. Wilbers earned his B.A. at Vanderbilt University and his M.A.
and Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. He was a Visiting Fulbright Fellow at
the University of Essex in Colchester, England. At the University of
Minnesota he directed one of the largest student academic support services
operations in the country before serving as Associate Director of the Program in
Creative and Professional writing. He lives in Minneapolis, where
he serves as board chair of the
Loft Literary Center.
For additional information, see
his
résumé.
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