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  • Communicate More Effectively in the Real World
  • Written by: Todd Rogers, Jessica Lasky-Fink
  • Narrated by: Todd Rogers
  • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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Writing for Busy Readers

Written by: Todd Rogers, Jessica Lasky-Fink
Narrated by: Todd Rogers
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Publisher's Summary

Writing well is for school. Writing effectively is for life.

Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink offer the most valuable practical writing advice today. Building on their own research in behavioral science, they outline cognitive facts about how people actually read and distill them into six principles that will transform the power of your writing:

  • Less is more
  • Make reading easy
  • Design for easy navigation
  • Use enough formatting, but no more
  • Tell readers why they should care
  • Make responding easy

Including many real-world examples, a checklist and other tools, this guide will make you a more successful and productive communicator. Rogers and Lasky-Fink bring Strunk and White’s core ideas into the twenty-first century’s attention marketplace.

When the influential guides to writing prose were written, the internet hadn’t been invented. Now, the average American adult is inundated with digital messages each day. With all this correspondence, capturing a busy reader’s attention is more challenging than ever. This is how to do it.

* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF with examples and tips from the book.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2023 Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink (P)2023 Penguin Audio

What the critics say

**A Next Big Idea Club must-read title for September 2023**

“Genius! A succinct, sage guide to writing effectively—and the only one I know of that is grounded in evidence of what really works.”—Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania, Founder and CEO of Character Lab, author of Grit

“It’s Strunk & White for the internet age.”—Publishers Weekly

“This book won’t just make you a better writer—it will turn you into a more effective communicator. WRITING FOR BUSY READERS is a surprisingly captivating guide to conjuring words that captivate people. Move over, AI: this is the ultimate guide to sharpen every meaningful message you craft.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Hidden Potential, and host of the TED podcast Re:Thinking

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