Renovating Your Writing: Shaping Ideas and Arguments into Clear, Concise, and Compelling Messages

by Richard Kallan

Renovating Your Writing outlines the principles of effective composition by focusing on the essential skill set and mindset every successful writer must possess. Now in its second edition, this novel text provides readers with unique strategies for crafting and revising their writing, whether for school, work, or play. The new edition emphasizes, in particular, the importance of the writer embracing a rhetorical perspective, distinguishing between formal and social media compositional styles, and appreciating the effort needed to produce clear, concise, and compelling messages.

186 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 6, 2017

About the author

Richard Kallan received his Ph.D. in Communication Studies from Northwestern University.

He has taught writing and speaking courses for more than thirty years, most recently for the University of Southern California Graduate School of Business; the University of California, Santa Barbara; and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he chairs the Department of Communication.

In addition to publishing scholarly articles about writers and writing, Dr. Kallan is the co-author of How to Take the Fog Out of Business Writing (revised edition, Dartnell, 1994), which has sold more than 750,000 copies since it was first published in 1956. His most recent work, Armed Gunmen, True Facts, and Other Ridiculous Nonsense: A Compiled Compendium of Repetitive Redundancies, was published by Pantheon Books/Random House in 2005. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.