2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Tricks of the Writer’s Trade
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Write it Right
Sections 3–5, focusing on the mechanics of how to write correctly, have dealt with things that you might already know. In this section, however, we want to move on to things that you won’t perhaps have been taught, to those little hints and wrinkles that can dramatically improve the quality of your writing. These are some of the tricks and skills of the writer’s trade, the ruses that writers rely on to give their work extra impact.