跳过导航
How To Be An Instant Expert
Book

How To Be An Instant Expert

Six Steps to Being an Authority on Any Subject

Career Press, 2000 更多详情

自动生成的音频
自动生成的音频

Editorial Rating

6

Qualities

  • Well Structured
  • For Beginners

Recommendation

If you’re an exec whose position requires any writing at all, it might occur to you that before you write an article or a speech you should jump on the Internet and do a thorough topic search – an original suggestion from author Stephen Spignesi. Thanks. You might even already know that you have to check reference materials at the library – another handy nugget of advice. But if your background is in technical expertise, not in word crafting, and you find writing as enticing as root canal, then this book is for you. It organizes ideas concisely and simply (Almost too simply: Any sixth grader could use it). While some content appeals only to freelancers (like a talk with a publishing-house acquisitions editor), getAbstract recommends the guidance and direction this book gives to would-be or must-be writers who are uncomfortable with writing. You know who you are.

Take-Aways

  • The first step toward writing about anything is to immerse yourself in the subject.
  • Only 5,000 people in the United States make their living as professional writers.
  • The Internet is an invaluable source of information and is now considered almost mandatory if you’re truly trying to research a project.

About the Author

Stephen J. Spignesi specializes in popular culture subjects, including television, film, contemporary fiction and historical biography. His many books include JFK Jr., The Complete Titanic, The Lost Works of Stephen King, The Beatles Book of Lists and the Italian 100. The author says he has written many nonfiction books about subjects that he admits he knew nothing about before he got the book assignments.


Comment on this summary or 开始讨论

  • Avatar
  • Avatar
    C. Y. 7 years ago
    Interesting: do not try to write what you think they want to hear or what they ex­pect. In­stead, write what you want them to know.

More on this topic

Related Channels