The Art of Plain Talk
by Flesch, Rudolf
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
Item Price
£10.12£5.06
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1946. Rudolf Flesch, Ph.D. Foreword by Lyman Bryson...Education Director Columbia Broadcasting System. One of the clearest, most sensible and helpful books on language. The former president of The American University lends this endorsement: " 'The Art of Plain Talk' by Rudolf Flesch takes its place beside the dictionary as a tool for the writer who wants his work read. His readability formula and the ideas and techniques of simple communication which are related to its use are major contributions to good English, to writing craftsmenship, and to objective standards of measuring how understandable writing is." Twenty-two informative chapters, an appendix and index supplied. Bookplate to ffep. Name to prelim. A very clean bright book in an internally repaired but still-bright dust jacket.. BOMC Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Language + Writing + Communication Techniques + Language Structure + NOISBN. Catalogs: Education.
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- Seller
- Gilt Edge Books (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- B1219
- Title
- The Art of Plain Talk
- Author
- Flesch, Rudolf
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- BOMC Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Bookseller catalogs
- Education;
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