
Writing for Busy Readers
Communicate More Effectively in the Real World
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Todd Rogers
Writing well is for school. Writing effectively is for life.
Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink offer the most valuable practical writing advice today. Building on their own research in behavioral science, they outline cognitive facts about how people actually read and distill them into six principles that will transform the power of your writing:
- Less is more
- Make reading easy
- Design for easy navigation
- Use enough formatting, but no more
- Tell readers why they should care
- Make responding easy
Including many real-world examples, a checklist and other tools, this guide will make you a more successful and productive communicator. Rogers and Lasky-Fink bring Strunk and White’s core ideas into the twenty-first century’s attention marketplace.
When the influential guides to writing prose were written, the internet hadn’t been invented. Now, the average American adult is inundated with digital messages each day. With all this correspondence, capturing a busy reader’s attention is more challenging than ever. This is how to do it.
* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF with examples and tips from the book.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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Critic reviews
**A Next Big Idea Club must-read title for September 2023**
“Genius! A succinct, sage guide to writing effectively—and the only one I know of that is grounded in evidence of what really works.”—Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania, Founder and CEO of Character Lab, author of Grit
“It’s Strunk & White for the internet age.”—Publishers Weekly
“This book won’t just make you a better writer—it will turn you into a more effective communicator. WRITING FOR BUSY READERS is a surprisingly captivating guide to conjuring words that captivate people. Move over, AI: this is the ultimate guide to sharpen every meaningful message you craft.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Hidden Potential, and host of the TED podcast Re:Thinking
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It explains the reasons and techniques for the six principles (listed in the Publisher's Summary), which are practical, well-organized, and ready to be used.
The book is excellent for a casual listen when commuting or chilling, and its recommended tools are readily applicable. If you are familiar with neurological studies on attention span, feel free to skip chapter one on the necessity for effective writing.
If you like this book and want more like that, "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. & E. B. White is a must for all writers (though probably better in a paper book than an audiobook); for research writing, check out "They Say / I Say, The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing" by Gerald Graff & Cathy Birkenstein; for inspiration to write, check out "The View from The Cheap Seats" by Neil Gaiman (also ready by the author, highly recommended).
Excellent practical tips & an enjoyable listen
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Takes a subjective topic and provides statistics alongside advice.
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Cuts right to the heart of effective writing
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Must-read for writers and communicators
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Good tips for writing for Busy readers
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Well organized & appropriately, concise
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Magnificent!
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Write less, communicate more.
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A “Must Listen” + game changer
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Required reading for writing for readers
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