

<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US">This brisk and pungent guide
to the use of words as tools of communication is written primarily for
journalists, yet its lessons are of immense value to all who face the problem
of giving information, whether to the general public or within the business, professional
or social organizations. What makes a good English sentence? How should you
rewrite a bad one? What clichés and other word traps are to be avoided? Using a
wealth of examples drawn from British and American newspapers, Essential
English is an indispensable guide for all who have to convey information by the
written or printed word. Essential English is an indispensable guide to the use
of words as tool of communication. It is written primarily for journalists,
yet its lessons are of immense value to all who face the problem of giving
information, whether to the general public or within the business, professional or
social organizations.</span></strong></p>

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supplements are not guaranteed with used items.</span></strong></p>

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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US">Harold Evans </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US">was born on 28 June 1928, in Eccles, United Kingdom. He was a
British-American journalist and writer. In his career in his native Britain, he
was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, and its sister title The
Times for a year from 1981, before being forced out of the latter post by
Rupert Murdoch. He died on 23 September 2020, in New York, New York, United
States.</span></strong></p>

