Words Fail Me:
What Everyone Who Writes Should Know About Writing

by Patricia T. O'Conner
published by Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999

ESC Software Marketing Book Club's August, 2009 selection.

"This is the second book by Patricia O'Conner that I've read and enjoyed," said Al Harberg, the guy who introduces each chapter of each ESC Software Marketing Book Club book.

Her first book, Woe is I, is a great way to learn English grammar.

Reading this month's selection - Words Fail Me - is a painless way to learn to write better.

O'Conner was an editor at the New York Times Book Review. She writes well. And her advice can make our sales messages stronger.

She believes that writing well is a craft that can be learned. She calls Words Fail Me a "user's manual for words".

Good writing is writing that works - writing that makes sense. This book presents the rules of writing. You don't have to follow the rules every time you write. But you need to know the rules, and only break them knowingly.

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