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Harold Evans
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in Manchester, The United Kingdom
June 28, 1928
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The 35 words you���re (probably) getting wrong
I freely acknowledge that, in a list of this sort, ���glossary��� is a fancy Latin word for a collection of pet peeves (noun, 1919), meaning an annoyance or irritation. One of my peeves is that, as a noun originating in America, it had not been admitted into the Shorter Oxford...
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Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters
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2017
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My Paper Chase
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2009
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They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
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2004
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Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers
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The American Century
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1998
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Good Times, Bad Times
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1983
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Pictures On A Page: Photojournalism,Graphics and Picture Editing
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1978
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War Stories: Reporting in the Time of Conflict from the Crimea to Iraq
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2001
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“Nothing is so tiring to the reader as excavating nuggets of meaning from mountains of words.”
― Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers
― Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers
“Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.”
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“Speechwriter Barton Swaim cheerfully explains why the opaque may be a virtue. “Using vague, slippery or just meaningless language,” he writes, “is not the same as lying: it’s not intended to deceive so much as to preserve options, buy time, distance oneself from others, or just to sound like you’re saying something instead of nothing.”
― Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters
― Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters
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