Renovating Your Writing: Shaping Ideas into Clear, Concise, and Compelling Messages

· Routledge
Ebook
160
Pages

About this ebook

Whether outlining a persuasive speech or looking to improve overall organizational skills, Renovating Your Writing outlines the principles of effective composition and then engages the reader with constant revision and editing practices to improve writing skills at school, work, and home .

This enlightening text provides readers with unique strategies, tactics, and tips needed to improve their ability to critique and self-revise their work. Kallan introduces and emphasizes to readers the difference between the act of writing and the informed practice of writing.

About the author

Richard Kallan is Professor of Communication and Chair of the Communication Department. He has taught a variety of courses in writing and speaking at various universities. More recently, his teaching interests have been directed toward mentoring students through his role as coordinator of the department's internship program. Most of Professor Kallan's research and publications focus on how language functions rhetorically, and, more specifically, on how writers use various strategies and tactics to create compelling messages that ensure persuasion.

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