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For more than 20 years, Getting the Words Right has helped readers from all professions and walks of life rewrite, revise, and refine their writing. That tradition continues with this all-new edition that features 39 targeted ways to improve writing by: -Practicing the three fundamentals... read more

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The title of this book, Getting the Words Right, was a direct theft on my part from an interview about revision that Ernest Hemingway gave to the late George Plimpton in his Paris Review.

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  1. Theodore A. Rees Cheney (Author)

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  1. creative writing
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