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Index
Front Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Introduction: A Tight Fit Into Today’s World
1. The Four Levels of Wordiness and How to Tackle Them Learn the secrets of idea selection, manuscript planning, writing to feed into the manuscript’s focus, and trimming and revising.
2. Sixteen Types of Wordiness and How to Trim Them Specific advice on identifying and eliminating common wordweeds, including the affected, the circuitous, the empty, the evasive, and many others.
3. Prewriting Tight Tips on keeping your writing concise even at the first-draft stage.
4. Testing Your Writing for Flab Verbal aerobics to trim your writing into shape.
5. The Danger Signs of Wordiness Keys to verbal vigilance—how to spot little problems in your writing that could signal bigger problems.
6. Exercises for Developing Your Awareness of Concision A variety of methods for loosening and tightening your prose.
7. Reducing the Mental Length of Your Manuscript What to do when your writing is slow (or just seems to be).
8. Nonverbal Streamlining Physical elements such as sidebars, subheads, and checklists can trim your prose to improve readability.
9. How Tight Is Too Tight? How and when to loosen up to preserve clarity, emphasis, and flow without risking wordiness.
10. Putting It All Together: Writing Light Pulling triggers in your reader’s brain. Learn how to rely on what your reader already knows.
11. Tips for Trimming During Manuscript Revision Recollection in tranquility can help you spot the wordiness that creeps in during the early writing stages.
12. Shave and a Haircut and a Few Bits A potpourri of do’s and don’ts to keep your writing at fighting weight.
Bibliography and Sources
Appendix: A Baedeker of the Redundant
Apologia
Index
About the Author
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