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Better Than Great a Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives.
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Better Than Great a Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives. by Arthur Plotnik Paperback - 2012

by Arthur Plotnik

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The antidote to ineffective, boring acclaim, this book shows how to draw on the full range of expression available in the English language, offering more than 5,000 alternative terms for describing extraordinary things.

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  • Title Better Than Great a Plenitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives. by Arthur Plotnik
  • Author Arthur Plotnik
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 1
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Souvenir Press
  • Publication date 2012
  • ISBN 9780285641334 / 0285641336
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.31 x 0.79 in (21.59 x 13.49 x 2.01 cm)
  • Age range 12 to UP years
  • Grade levels 7 - UP
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Dewey Decimal Code 423.1

About the author

Arthur Plotnik is a versatile author with a distinguished background in editing and publishing. Among his seven previous books (not to mention 22 pseudonymous potboilers early in his career) are The Elements of Editing and The Elements of Expression, both Book-of-the-Month Club selections, and the bestselling Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Bold, Contemporary Style. His articles, op-eds, and literary pieces have been published widely, including his columns in The Writer magazine, on whose editorial board he serves.
Plotnik studied under Philip Roth in the Iowa Writers Workshop, was a reporter for the Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union, and after earning a second graduate degree, worked as a Library of Congress staffer in Washington and magazine editor in New York. He received numerous honors and awards as a long-time editor and publisher with the American Library Association in Chicago. He lives in that city with his wife and an avalanchine tumble of jottings for Better than Great.

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Better Than Great : A Plentitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives
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Better Than Great : A Plentitudinous Compendium of Wallopingly Fresh Superlatives

by Plotnik, Arthur

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