The Little Style Book: Professional Advice for Writers - Softcover

Whether it's the purple prose of overeager high school students, the lardy lingo of pretentious professionals, or the partisan rantings of just about every other website, most people don't write well. Worse, they don't even seem aware of it. The Little Style Book can separate you from the pack in minutes. Twelve pointers guide readers through some of the most crucial principles and subtler techniques that effective writers employ. Using the same pared-down, graphic approach as The Little Grammar Book , by the same author, this slim reference shows you how to write with power and grace. It does so with a minimum of fuss (and text). At fewer than 100 pages, it's clear, direct, and above all useful.

Joe Hayden is an award-winning journalism professor at the University of Memphis and has taught writing for more than 20 years. He is a former journalist whose work has been featured in newspapers and magazines as well as on the radio, television, and online. He is the author of "The Little Grammar Book." He lives in Memphis, Tennessee.