Month: September 2009

Here is some folk wisdom for writers and speakers: First I tells ‘em what I,m going to tell ‘ em,…

Here is a notice that appeared on various London buses in early 1988. The information it tries to convey will…

Some writers lose patience with methodical planning. Either they cannot generate enough ideas in the first place, or else they…

For many people who ‘live by the word’ – Public officials, PR spokesmen, advertisers, campaigners, and the like – euphemism…

Consider the following two versions of a text the conclusion of a short story written for a training course. The…

Here are extracts from two editorial articles in The Times of London. They appeared on the same day – 82…

Rearrange the following seven sentences into the well-structured paragraph they originally formed. (Just to establish the context: in the book…