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9781933338125
Concise alternatives for thousands of common, wordy phrases are provided in this guide to clean, strong prose. Updated and revised with hundreds of new entries, this new edition can tidy up any writer's long-winded phraseology with such helpful replacements as "because" for "based on the fact that," "cease" for "put an end to," and "violate" for "fail to comply with."Fiske, Robert Hartwell is the author of 'Dictionary of Concise Writing More Than 10,000 Alternatives to Wordy Phrases', published 2006 under ISBN 9781933338125 and ISBN 1933338121.
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