RESOURCE | Writing Tools
Roy Peter Clark whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of fifty short essays on different aspects of writing. In the past decade, Writing Tools has become a classic guidebook for novices and experts alike and remains one of the best-loved books on writing available. Organized into four sections, “Nuts and Bolts,” “Special Effects,” “Blueprints for Stories,” and “Useful Habits,” this book is infused with more than 200 examples from journalism and literature.
Roy is senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, one of the most prestigious schools for journalists in the world. He has taught writing at every level — to schoolchildren and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors — for more than thirty years. A writer who teaches and a teacher who writes, he has authored or edited seventeen books on writing and journalism, including The Art of X-Ray Reading, How to Write Short, The Glamour of Grammar, and Help! for Writers.
