Harold Evans

Do I Make Myself Clear?

A Practical Guide to Writing Well in the Modern Age

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Produktbeschreibung

"Harold Evans has edited everything from the urgent files of battlefield reporters to the complex thought processes of Henry Kissinger. He's even been knighted for his services to journalism. In Do I Make Myself Clear? he brings his indispensable insight to us all in a definitive guide to writing well. The right words are oxygen to our ideas, but the digital era -- with its TTYL, LMK, and WTF -- has been cutting off that oxygen flow. The compulsion to be precise has vanished from our culture,a nd in writing of every kind there is a trend toward more -- more speed, more information -- yet far less clarity. Evans provides practical examples of how editing and rewriting can make for better communication, even in the digital age. Do I Make Myself Clear? is an essential text, and one that will provide every writer with an editor at his shoulder."-- cFrom publisher's descriptio

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 143mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9780316509190
• ISBN-10: 0316509191
• Artikelnr.: 49207694

Autorenporträt

Harold Evans (1928-2020) was a British-born journalist and writer who was editor of the Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981. A graduate of Durham University, he wrote a number of bestselling histories. He followed the late Alistair Cooke in commentaries on America for the BBC. An American citizen after 1993, he held positions as editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Monthly Press, founding editor of the prize-winning Condé Nast Traveler; editorial director of the Atlantic and US News and the New York Daily News ; and president and publisher of Random House. He held the British Press Awards' Gold Award for Lifetime Achievement of Journalists. In 2001 British journalists voted him the all-time greatest British newspaper editor, and in 2004 he was knighted.