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Empower your writing! Keys to Great Writing covers every aspect of the
craft, showing you how to develop a writer's voice that is unique, precise and
effective.
From grammar to revision strategies, you'll find the crucial information you
need in short, easy-to-browse sections that enable you to hone your own
signature writing approach. No more wading through dry style manuals. No more
guesswork. Just clear, proven guidance, including:
■ Four Myths of Great
Writing
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The Elements of Style Checklist
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The Elements of Composition Checklist
■
The Four-Step Writing Process
■
Glossary of Grammatical Terms
■
Proofreading Checklist
■
Four Common Errors in Word Choice (and How to Avoid Them)
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Five Ways to Bring Music to Your Writing
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Fourteen Techniques to Eliminate Wordiness
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And much more!
Keys to Great Writing is like having your own desktop writing coach. Use
it, learn from it, and give voice to the great writer within you.
About the Author
Stephen Wilbers is a writing
consultant, syndicated columnist, and award-winning author. He teaches at the
University of Minnesota and in 1995 he won an Outstanding Faculty Award for his
teaching at Hamline Univesity. Since December 1991, he has written a weekly
column on effective writing, which appears in the
Minneapolis Star Tribune and other newspapers. He has published two
collections of his columns, Writing for Business (winner of a 1994
Minnesota Book Award) and Writing by Wilbers. For his Ph.D. dissertation
he wrote a history of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, which was published by the
University of Iowa Press.
Steve was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He earned his B.A. at Vanderbilt University,
and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. He spent his junior year
abroad in Aix-en-Provence, where he fell in love with the French language and
the Cours Mirabeau. As a 1985 Visiting Fulbright Fellow at the University of
Essex, he lived for five months in Wivenhoe, England, accompanied by his wife,
Debbie, and two young children, Eddy and Kate. He and his wife now live in
Minneapolis, which affords him easy access to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Wilderness of northern Minnesota, where he and his father — along with various
family members and friends — have taken annual canoe trips for the past
twenty-two years. 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. Since
1990, he has worked full time as a student and teacher of writing.
