As its title implies, this book deals with revising, not with original composition. Stressing the importance of the single sentence, The Paramedic Method of revision provides an easily learned method of revision to combat the obscurities of meaning that plague The Official Style, and demonstrates how to revise this stilted, dense prose into plain English. This book has been used with success wherever extensive writing is required, and also at every level of higher education. Addresses the specific stylistic patterns that characterize most bad writing and gives an eight-step revision method called The Paramedic Method to break those patterns and improve writing. Helps with writing tasks in business, government, and the university, where The Official Style is rampant, and provides an indispensable guide to revising in every writing context. For anyone interested in revising, specifically at the sentence level.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it, read it, become a better writer, Mar 3 2003

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This book teaches you to reanimate dead writing, restoring action and personality to it, one sentence at a time. Starting from analysis and reconstruction using small number of rules, progressing to the philosophical question of why you should revise prose, this book remains interesting after multiple readings. I can't speak hightly enough of it. A true eye opener.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best book about writing, Jan 9 2003

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I first read this book in 1980 as a graduate student and it changed the way I write. I still remember the shock I felt then at learning that academic writing did not have to be tedious, wordy and stuffy. Everybody to whom I've given this book (back before it became so expensive)has also found that it radically changed their writing for the better.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Grammar CAN make you roll on the floor laughing, Jan 17 2002

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One of the most informative and entertaining books I've ever read. This book teaches concise writing methods. If bureaucrats around the world learned from this book, we'd save the old growth forests.

After I buy this copy, I will no longer lend it to my "friends", as this is the 4th copy which has disappeared.

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