Bruce Ross-Larson

Stunning Sentences

Whether you are composing a Web page on the Internet or agonizing over an annual budget report, these books are the key to clarity, accuracy, and economy in any writing task.

Offers more than 100 model sentence types in a catalog format, giving writers many interesting and provocative ways to say what they mean. Writers looking for a more striking way to open a sentence will find these options: the announcement, the editorial opening, the opening appositive, the opening absolute, and the conjunction opening, among others. Examples of each sentence type ensure the reader's understanding of the concepts.

1999 / paperback original / ISBN 0-393-31795-1 / 6" x 8" / 160 pages / Reference/Writing

Bruce Ross-Larson

Powerful Paragraphs

Whether you are composing a Web page on the Internet or agonizing over an annual budget report, these books are the key to clarity, accuracy, and economy in any writing task.

Explores the essentials of solid, point-based paragraphs, with chapters on unifying each paragraph around one point, developing paragraphs in a variety of interesting ways, binding sentences within the paragraph, and creating smooth transitions. A catalog of exemplary paragraph patterns, supported with clear diagrams, gives readers models to follow and options to consider.

1999 / paperback original / ISBN 0-393-31794-3 / 6" x 8" / 160 pages / Reference/Writing

Bruce Ross-Larson

Riveting Reports

Whether you are composing a Web page on the Internet or agonizing over an annual budget report, these books are the key to clarity, accuracy, and economy in any writing task.

Covers everything from the first spark of inspiration to the final draft. Writers will see how a series of careful questions will lead them to the messages of their reports, and will learn how to let those messages drive the structure of the piece. From this foundation they will be able to create a paragraph-by-paragraph plan of their entire report. A final chapter explains the author's techniques for editing reports of any length.

Bruce Ross-Larson is the president of American Writing Corporation, Communications Development Incorporated, and the American Writing Institute. He lives in Washington, D.C.

1999 / paperback original / ISBN 0-393-31793-5 / 6" x 8" / 160 pages / Reference/Writing