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Legendary writing coach Jack Hart spent twenty-six years at the Oregonian and has taught students and professionals of all stripes, including bloggers, podcasters, and more than one Pulitzer Prize winner. Good writing, he says, has the same basic attributes regardless of genre or medium. Wordcraft shares Hart’s techniques for achieving those attributes in one of the most broadly useful writing books ever written.
Originally published in 2006 as A Writer’s Coach, the book has been updated to address the needs of writers well beyond print journalists. Hart breaks the writing process into a series of manageable steps, from idea to polishing. Filled with real-world examples, both good and bad, Wordcraft shows how to bring such characteristics as force, brevity, clarity, rhythm, and color to any kind of writing.
Wordcraft now functions as a set with the second edition of Hart’s book Storycraft, on the art of storytelling, also available from Chicago.
Legendary writing coach Jack Hart spent twenty-six years at the Oregonian and has taught students and professionals of all stripes, including bloggers, podcasters, and more than one Pulitzer Prize winner. Good writing, he says, has the same basic attributes regardless of genre or medium. Wordcraft shares Hart’s techniques for achieving those attributes in one of the most broadly useful writing books ever written.
Originally published in 2006 as A Writer’s Coach, the book has been updated to address the needs of writers well beyond print journalists. Hart breaks the writing process into a series of manageable steps, from idea to polishing. Filled with real-world examples, both good and bad, Wordcraft shows how to bring such characteristics as force, brevity, clarity, rhythm, and color to any kind of writing.
Wordcraft now functions as a set with the second edition of Hart’s book Storycraft, on the art of storytelling, also available from Chicago.
Preface
Introduction
1 Method
2 Process
3 Structure
4 Force
5 Brevity
6 Clarity
7 Rhythm
8 Humanity
9 Color
10 Voice
11 Mechanics
12 Mastery
Acknowledgments
Selected Resources for Writers
Index
Jack Hart is an author, writing coach, and former managing editor
at the Oregonian. He has taught at six universities and served as
the acting dean at The University of Oregon School of Journalism
and Communication.
“Wise, practical, and smart, Wordcraft is an exceptional book,
offering advice with good humor and great insight. Hart’s approach
to the writing process will engage you while you’re learning,
console you when you’re stuck, and, best of all, inspire you to be
a better writer.”
*Susan Orlean, Author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book*
“I consider this a foundational book about strong, clear,
purposeful writing—along with Zinsser, Strunk and White, and Roy
Peter Clark’s Writing Tools. The update keeps pace with the times
and makes it useful across platforms and experience levels.”
*Jacqui Banaszynski, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, writer,
editor, and teacher*
“A landmark book. Wordcraft gets behind the mystique and
shows how the successful writer thinks his or her way through
stories.”
*Jon Franklin, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist*
“Hart is one of the country’s foremost
writing coaches. The lessons he teaches are about
storytelling, structuring, pacing, tension, and conflict. These
lessons are perhaps even more important now in a digital age that
sometimes forgets that—without a story to tell—words, videos,
graphs, graphics, emails, alerts, and news bulletins are just so
much noise.”
*Amanda Bennett, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, investigative
journalist, and editor*
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