The art of plain talk /

The art of plain talk / by Rudolf Flesch ; foreword by Lyman Bryson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Flesch, Rudolf, 1911-1986.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, 1946.
Subjects:	English language > Composition and exercises. Report writing.

Table of Contents:

Plain talk is an art
Let's start with Chinese
Listen to plain talk
Sentences come first
Gadgets of language
The grammar of gossip
Here's your yardstick
Live words
Crowded words
Empty words
The gloamour of punctuation
Turnabout rhetoric
Follow the language
Short cuts
Talking down and reading up
Can science be explained?
The trouble with textbooks
What price copy?
How to read the Federal Register
The juvenile touch
One language after another
The future of plain talk
Appendix. How to use the yardstick formula.