num_pages: 420
description: Concise alternatives for thousands of common, wordy phrases are provided in this guide to clean, strong prose. Updated and revised with hundreds of new entries, this new edition can tidy up any writer's long-winded phraseology with such helpful replacements as "because" for "based on the fact that," "cease" for "put an end to," and "violate" for "fail to comply with."
language: English
title: The Dictionary of Concise Writing: More Than 10,000 Alternatives to Wordy Phrases
titlecomplete: The Dictionary of Concise Writing: More Than 10,000 Alternatives to Wordy Phrases
genres: Reference, Writing
ratings_count: 27
publisher: Marion Street Press, LLC