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  • Writing Without Bullshit

  • Boost Your Career by Saying What You Mean
  • By: Josh Bernoff
  • Narrated by: Josh Bernoff
  • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (49 ratings)

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Writing Without Bullshit

By: Josh Bernoff
Narrated by: Josh Bernoff
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Joining the ranks of classics like The Elements of Style and On Writing Well, Writing Without Bullshit helps professionals get to the point to get ahead.

It's time for Writing Without Bullshit.

Writing Without Bullshit is the first comprehensive guide to writing for today's world: a noisy environment where everyone reads what you write on screens. The average news story now gets only 36 seconds of attention. Unless you change how you write, your emails, reports, and Web copy don't stand a chance.

In this practical and witty book, you'll learn to front-load your writing with pithy titles, subject lines, and opening sentences. You'll acquire the courage and skill to purge weak and meaningless jargon, wimpy passive voice, and cowardly weasel words. And you'll get used to writing directly to the reader to make every word count.

At the center of it all is the Iron Imperative: Treat the reader's time as more valuable than your own. Embrace that, and your customers, your boss, and your colleagues will recognize the power and boldness of your thinking.

Transcend the fear that makes your writing weak. Plan and execute writing projects with confidence. Manage edits and reviews flawlessly. And master every modern format, from emails and social media to reports and press releases.

Stop writing to fit in. Start writing to stand out. Boost your career by writing without bullshit.

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Super Straight to the Point - As It Should Be

I chuckled throughout this book, appreciating the author's light use of profanity to drive his message home. He skillfully intertwined the theme of the book with the Iron Imperative, a concept I will carry with me for life.

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Gets straight to the point no BS.

this book outlines swiftly how to communicate effectively in your writing. All the tools you need non of the fluff and jargon you don't.

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Weak advice given with arrogance

Looking for examples to support your just world fallacy? Then you'll enjoy this book. Not interested in having someone lecture you from an unacknowledged place of privilege? Skip it. Required to read this book for work? Set the speed as high as you can stand and have a drink. Have a background in scientific writing? Make that drink a stiff one.

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