About Writer Copyright (c) 2006 by Bob Lory. Bob Lory is an author/teacher of business communication strategy, management and writing with 30 years of corporate and independent consulting experience. He's also written 35 published novels. Get more of his insights on good writing at http://write-to-communicate.blogspot.com.
Why Your Writing Structure Counts Many forms of poetry have very strict structures. Some types of fiction do as well--writers of romance novels go outside their publisher's "guidelines" at their peril.Non-fiction also has a number of formats.Most news releases, for example, are written in "AP style.... Similar Editorial : Real Estate Credibility Counts by Shareen Aguilar. | Source : Structure In Writing
Group Or "Our" Writing Style We often speak of writing "style," which in reality is not one concept but four. I recommended Strunk and White's The Elements of Style as a guide to general or "correct" writing style. That's the first concept of "style." The other three are:Group or "our" st... Similar Editorial : Chrysler Group by Lisa Ziegler. | Source : Common Grammar Mistakes
How To Develop Your Own Writing Style You hear a lot about this or that writer's style, usually because they have developed a signature way of expressing themselves. Hemmingway, Faulkner, Joyce. Columnists Russell Baker, Art Buchwald, Erma Bombeck. Among more recent fiction writers: Elmore Leonard, Tom Robbins, Donald E. Westlake... Similar Editorial : Writing Without Style by Joseph E. Wright. | Source : Writing Styles
Write Within The Rules Of The Group We often speak of writing "style," which in reality is not one concept but four. I recommended Strunk and White's The Elements of Style as a guide to general or "correct" writing style. That's the first concept of "style." The other three are:Group or "our" st... Similar Editorial : Group or by Bob Lory. | Source : Writing Styles
The "Elements" Of Good Writing If you want to write "good," you're supposed to know certain rules of grammar-where to place commas, the agreement of nouns and verbs, the proper cases of pronouns. This is the "gut" stuff of English Composition 101 that, if you do enough of it wrong, labels you as illiterate.... Source : Literary Criticism