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    How to Write Clearly Now! Instantly Improve Your Writing for Books, Reports, and Proposals
    How to Write Clearly Now! Instantly Improve Your Writing for Books, Reports, and Proposals
    How to Write Clearly Now! Instantly Improve Your Writing for Books, Reports, and Proposals
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    How to Write Clearly Now! Instantly Improve Your Writing for Books, Reports, and Proposals

    By Kevin W Jameson

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    Want to write faster? More clearly? With less effort? You can do it easily when you know what to write and how to write it. Make your writing more informative and persuasive.

    This book shows you how to do it—with lots of concise, focused experience. See for yourself—look inside at the Table of Contents.

    This book is authentic because it was written by a veteran writer with 40 years of writing experience. Find out how to:

    • Focus your writing on a key audience question
    • Save your time and effort by avoiding dead ends
    • Include the right content by knowing what to write
    • Increase your efficiency with a step-by-step process
    • Increase your clarity with key sentence phrases
    • Increase your persuasiveness with the right content
    • Increase your writing speed with content templates

    Stop your writing pain and improve your performance instead. You can feel like a master when you know what to write and how to write it. You'll write faster, with less effort, and produce better writing that people like to read.

    You can write with the knowledge and clarity of a 40-year veteran expert with the help of this book.

    You can start within seconds, and you can have your writing plan finished in a couple of hours from this moment. The knowledge you need is only a few mouse clicks away.

    This is the book I wish I had when I was starting out. It would have saved me endless hours and made my writing far better.

    Wishing you high productivity, Kevin

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKevin W Jameson
    Release dateApr 29, 2018
    ISBN9781386270638
    How to Write Clearly Now! Instantly Improve Your Writing for Books, Reports, and Proposals
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    Kevin W Jameson

    Hi, I grew up in Calgary, AB, Canada, and have been an avid reader my whole life. I've read thousands of books by now, listed in a database that I keep. I like to dig deep to understand and master interesting, difficult problems such as those described in my books. Many years ago I earned a few academic degrees (Industrial Electronics, BSc General Science, MSc Software Engineering). Then I gained lots of real life experience from running an advanced software research company for 25 years. With my remaining life, I hope to have some fun, learn some new things, and pass on my life knowledge to help other people.

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      How to Write Clearly Now! Instantly Improve Your Writing for Books, Reports, and Proposals - Kevin W Jameson

      How to Write Clearly Now!

      Instantly Improve Your Writing of Books, Articles, Reports, and Proposals

      Abstract

      This book is about how to write clearly.

      It shows you how to match your message to your audience and how to introduce, structure, write, and conclude your message—all with clarity.

      Writing clearly is important if you want to communicate your ideas to other people.

      The three main parts of this book are descriptions of document parts and their duties, a writing process for writing the parts clearly, and outlines for typical document parts.

      The descriptions help you to increase your understanding of document parts.

      The writing process help you to build documents from smaller parts.

      The outlines help you to modify document parts to meet your needs.

      You'll write more clearly—and with less effort—if you follow the methods in this book.

      Acknowledgments

      In one of my biggest lessons in life, I learned to ask not if I liked or disliked something, but How did this come to be? Asking that question opens you up to many amazing stories of creation.

      This book is no different. When I consider all the things that had to be in place before I could drive the book to completion, I end up with a very long list that includes scientific discoveries, technologies, businesses, and people.

      I’m grateful for the giant pyramid of human effort that enabled me to write this book, from Gutenberg to Microsoft Word. The technologies that make electronic writing and publishing are truly astonishing.

      Peggy Howard, PhD, helped me to see which words (chapters, actually) should be taken away. Her wonderful editing skills had a huge positive effect on the quality of this book.

      Matt Stone triggered the publication of this book after it sat on my computer disk for more than 20 years. He packaged an inexpensive book cover offering in one of his big Internet marketing deals, and that incentive motivated me to publish.

      100 Covers.com created the interesting cover with the block fonts and old-style pen nib. Matt also took a few of my extra words out of the title to make it more concise.

      And finally, I’m grateful to Draft2Digital.com and Amazon.com because they do such a wonderful job of making it easy for authors to publish ebooks.

      Thank you

      Kevin

      Introduction

      This book shows you how to write clearly.

      Clear writing is important for many reasons. It helps you to clarify your thoughts. It expresses your messages more effectively. It’s easier for your readers to understand.

      This book shows you

      How to match your message and audience

      How to organize your message

      How to structure your message

      How to support your message

      How to conclude your message

      These are important skills to learn if you want to write stronger, more organized messages to your audiences with less effort. The structure of this book itself is an example of the ideas explained here.

      Structure of This Book

      PART ONE is about writing a clear and complete message for a specific audience.

      The Introduction gives you an overview of the content in this book.

      Match the Message to the Audience gives you a list of key questions to answer to match your message to your audience. A good match saves you from wasting time on messages that don't fit your audience.

      How to Write a Clear Message shows you how to build a message from smaller parts such as an abstract, table of contents, introduction, body, and conclusion. You can choose the parts that are best for your message.

      How to Write a Complete Message shows you what extra information to include around your main idea to form a complete message for your readers. That way your document won't leave them with unanswered questions in their minds.

      Tips for Improved Clarity gives you a list of things you can do with paragraphs and sentences to make your writing concise and clear.

      PART TWO is about how to write the parts that you need for your message.

      How to Write Structural Summaries shows you how to tell your readers what messages lie ahead for them.

      How to Write Abstracts shows you how to put your key messages and results into a concise abstract.

      How to Write Tables of Contents shows you how to write a table of contents with talking titles that highlight both the structure and key points of your message (like the table of contents in this book).

      How to Write Opening Statements shows you how to write excellent opening sentences that get your document off to a good start.

      How to Write Introductions shows you how to introduce your readers to the content and structure of your message.

      How to Write the Document Body shows you what to consider and

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