Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

by Roy Peter Clark

Use one for power. • Use two for comparison, contrast. • Use three for completeness, wholeness, roundness. • Use four or more to list, inventory, compile, and expand.

Two questions will help you make this tool work. “Can you give me an example?” will drive the speaker down the ladder. But “What does that mean?” will carry him aloft.