Wordcraft: The Complete Guide to Clear, Powerful Writing [Paperback]

Legendary writing coach Jack Hart spent twenty-six years at theOregonianand 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.Wordcraftshares Hart’s techniques for achieving those attributes in one of the most broadly useful writing books ever written.

Originally published in 2006 asA 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,Wordcraftshows how to bring such characteristics as force, brevity, clarity, rhythm, and color to any kind of writing.

Wordcraftnow functions as a set with the second edition of Hart’s bookStorycraft, on the art of storytelling, also available from Chicago.Jack Hart is an author, writing coach, and former managing editor at theOregonian. He has taught at six universities and served as the acting dean at The University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.
 
1 Method

2 Process

3 Structure

4 Force

5 Brevity

6 Clarity

7 Rhythm

8 Humanity

9 Color

10 Voice

11 Mechanics

12 Mastery