{"product_id":"write-more-good-isbn-9780307719584","title":"Write More Good","description":"Still clinging to your dog-eared dictionary? So attached to \u003ci\u003eThe Elements of Style \u003c\/i\u003ethat you named your rabbits Strunk and White? Maybe you’re a beleaguered reporter, or a type-A newspaper reader who unwinds by e-mailing the editor about whether “tweet” is a verb?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s time to face up to reality: Writing clearly, checking facts, and correcting typos are dying arts. Whether you’re a jaded producer of media or a nitpicking consumer of it, this book will help you to embrace, not resist, the lowering of standards for the written word! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart dictionary, part journalism textbook, part grammar and writing manual, \u003ci\u003eWrite More Good\u003c\/i\u003e is a “comprehensive” “guide” to today’s “media,” in all its ambulance-chasing, story-fabricating, money-hemorrhaging glory. 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