About The Writer’s Diet
The Writer’s Diet focuses on five common problems that frequently plague unfit sentences. The five chapters of the book correspond to the five sections of The Wasteline Test, a diagnostic instrument designed to expose weakness and flab in five categories commonly associated with stodgy sentences: weak verbs, abstract nouns, prepositions, adjectives/adverbs and 'waste words' (it, this, that, there). Who needs The Writer’s Diet?
Undergraduate and graduate students, advanced academics, journalists, novelists, and even poets will benefit from the healthy writing habits outlined in this book. Each chapter takes you on a guided tour of some of the world’s finest sentences – and some truly dreadful ones as well. Along the way, you will learn how to improve your own verbal fitness levels without losing your sense of style.
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