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.
396 pp.
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"Two of the better usage books to come down the road." --Zay Smith, "Chicago Sun-Times," on "The Dictionary of Concise Writing" and "The Dimwit's Dictionary"
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