The Little Red Writing Book by Mark Tredinnick
Retitled as Writing Well:The Essential Guide Outside Australia
Writing Well: The Essential Guide is a retitled release of the little red writing book, published in late 2006 by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press in Australia. Writing Well’s author is poet, essayist and writing teacher Mark Tredinnick, winner of the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize and the Wildcare Nature Writing Prize.
Writing Well’s author Mark Tredinnick
Mark Tredinnick, a former lawyer, book editor and publisher, now teaches grammar and composition, runs writing workshops at the University of Sydney and other Australian writing centres, has led motivational events for writers in countries including Sri Lanka and USA and runs workshops for government and business clients.
A Small Manifesto
Potential English-speaking readers of Writing Well: The Essential Guide by Mark Tredinnick may desire to read the author’s A Small Manifesto – A Speech made at the launch of Little Red Writing Book published Sunday October 28, 2007. Reading A Small Manifesto by Mark Tredinnick offers insights to the book's contents to a potential buyer and reader of the writing resource alongside book reviews by earlier readers.
In A Small Manifesto – A Speech made at the launch of Little Red Writing Book - Writing Well’s author Mark Tredinnick writes about the rationale for his book, his philosophy of publishing a writing resource – “to do something about bad language and its consequences” -and what his big ideas are in the book: “My little book has two big ideas in it – at least two. One is musical (aesthetic); the other’s political (ethical); and I think each may be the other inside out, for they’re both about integrity, and voice and care”.
Writing Well: The Essential Guide
In Australia, the little red writing book (UNSW Press 2006) is popular and a must-read for any citizen with a desire to write elegantly and with ease.
In an inspirational voice, the instruction feels warm, credible and supportive. In 'Shapely Thoughts' Chapter 6 of the little red writing book, Mark Tredinnick writes "Ten Ways to Make a Point...You can develop your point by
- Rephrasing it in various ways
- Illustrating with examples
- Likening it to something else by
-analogy or
- comparison
- distinguishing it from something else by contrast
- explaining
- what caused it or
- what it causes
- defining it (and explaining your definition)
- analysing it
- qualifying it.”
Densely and thoughtfully packed with reflections and practical exercises for creative and technical writers, the little red writing book - titled for US and UK readers as Writing Well: The Essential Guide' (Cambridge University Press, 2008) has, as the little red writing book, had a good start as an accessible writing resource that will offer genuine competition to the Oxford Essential Guide to Writing.
Further information about Mark Tredinnick including A Small Manifesto – A Speech made at the launch of Little Red Writing Book is available online.
