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Aug 18, 2008 writing well is a guide to expressive creative writing and effective professional prose. Buy writing well by mark tredinnick from waterstones today. You wont find any pages listing individual poems and poets at the front of this book, by the way, but there is an index of. The author, a poet, writer, editor and teacher, explains the techniques required for stylish and readable writing. To teach creative writing well, it also helps to know a little more about how creativity feels and what it asks of a writer, and mark will speak from his experience as a poet, essayist and memoirist. He is a former lawyer and book editor and earned both an mba and a phd from the university of western sydneys school of social ecology. The little green grammar book mark tredinnick download.