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- catalog abstract "Armed with our laptops and our PCs, we're the writing-est generation ever, cranking out e-mail, Web pages, and blogs, not to mention office memos, faxes, reports, newsletters, school papers, even memoirs and novels. But many of us were never taught how to write a sentence that makes sense, how to make sure our words do justice to our ideas. The result? Never have so many written so much so badly. O'Conner comes to the rescue with a practical and witty guide to the elements of good writing.--From publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b11424675.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description "Armed with our laptops and our PCs, we're the writing-est generation ever, cranking out e-mail, Web pages, and blogs, not to mention office memos, faxes, reports, newsletters, school papers, even memoirs and novels. But many of us were never taught how to write a sentence that makes sense, how to make sure our words do justice to our ideas. The result? Never have so many written so much so badly. O'Conner comes to the rescue with a practical and witty guide to the elements of good writing.--From publisher description.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]) and index.".
- catalog description "Is your egg ready to hatch? Know the subject -- The party to whom I am speaking : know the audience -- Get with the program : the organized writer -- Commencement address : the first few words -- From here to uncertainty : how am I doing -- Pompous circumstances : hold the baloney -- The life of the party : verbs that zing -- Call waiting : putting the subject on hold -- Now, where were we? A time and a place for everything -- The it parade : pronoun pileups -- Smothering heights : misbehaving modifiers -- Too marvelous for words : the sensible sentence -- Made for each other : well-matched sentences -- Give me a break : thinking in paragraphs -- The elongated yellow fruit : fear of repetition -- Training wheels : belaboring the obvious -- Critique of poor reason : the art of making sense -- Grammar Moses : thou shalt not embarrass thyself -- Down for the count : when the numbers don't add up -- Lost horizon : what's the point of view? -- Wimping out : the backward writer -- Everybody's favorite subject : I, me, my -- Promises, promises : making them, keeping them -- You got rhythm : writing to the beat -- The human comedy : what's so funny? -- I second that emotion : once more, with feeling -- The importance of being honest : leveling with the reader -- Once around the block : what to do when you're stuck -- Debt before dishonor : how and what to borrow -- Revise and consent : getting to the finish line.".
- catalog extent "x, 230 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Words fail me.".
- catalog identifier "0151003718".
- catalog isFormatOf "Words fail me.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Harcourt Brace,".
- catalog relation "Words fail me.".
- catalog subject "808/.02 21".
- catalog subject "Authorship.".
- catalog subject "Creative writing.".
- catalog subject "PN147 .O27 1999".
- catalog subject "Report writing.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Is your egg ready to hatch? Know the subject -- The party to whom I am speaking : know the audience -- Get with the program : the organized writer -- Commencement address : the first few words -- From here to uncertainty : how am I doing -- Pompous circumstances : hold the baloney -- The life of the party : verbs that zing -- Call waiting : putting the subject on hold -- Now, where were we? A time and a place for everything -- The it parade : pronoun pileups -- Smothering heights : misbehaving modifiers -- Too marvelous for words : the sensible sentence -- Made for each other : well-matched sentences -- Give me a break : thinking in paragraphs -- The elongated yellow fruit : fear of repetition -- Training wheels : belaboring the obvious -- Critique of poor reason : the art of making sense -- Grammar Moses : thou shalt not embarrass thyself -- Down for the count : when the numbers don't add up -- Lost horizon : what's the point of view? -- Wimping out : the backward writer -- Everybody's favorite subject : I, me, my -- Promises, promises : making them, keeping them -- You got rhythm : writing to the beat -- The human comedy : what's so funny? -- I second that emotion : once more, with feeling -- The importance of being honest : leveling with the reader -- Once around the block : what to do when you're stuck -- Debt before dishonor : how and what to borrow -- Revise and consent : getting to the finish line.".
- catalog title "Words fail me : what everyone who writes should know about writing / Patricia T. O'Connor.".
- catalog type "text".