Informative Writing
Reviewed by Cyril Windust FISTC
If one cares to accept that only 1% of the world's print output is creative
and 99% is informative, it is sad that the accolades go to a few of the 1%
while obscurity is the lot of most of the 99%, despite their vital role in
disseminating needed information.
Informative Writing is a 'no frills' textbook for anyone who has to communicate
effectively when transferring knowledge from mind to mind.
It covers all the stages of getting from ideas to print using a three-stage
method to cover three levels of instruction. Each topic in a chapter tends
to be spread over three pages; the first contains the basics, the second,
an expansion, the third gives an overview of the whole and provides concise
discussion answers. When I tried out a topic headed Information Writing and
Creative Writing with a couple of writers who tended to add comment the end
of each paragraph, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the follow-on paragraph
provided a very suitable answer.
Yes, whether you welcome help with your communication problems or are convinced
that you communicate by divine inspiration, Informative Writing is a useful
guide book/checklist to have at hand.
Goddard/Cassell, 2nd Edition 1998, ISBN 0-304-70278-1
Available from Amazon.co.uk
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