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Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer is a book on writing by the journalist Roy Peter Clark. Summary of the Book Writing is an art. Writers are born, not made. Well, that’s what most of the writing quotes will tell you. However, despite the fact that writing is largely a gift, good writing is something that comes from training and hard work. Roy Peter Clark explains that the best writers have the right tools, and they are not afraid to use them. In this book, he lists out 50 tools that all writers need to write better. From the basics to the advanced, he covers them all, offering writers valuable weapons to keep them at the table, writing. He believes that tools are what is needed to keep a writer writing, and that advice is a commodity freely given and largely useless. This book is necessary for all aspiring writers looking for ways to make their writing more powerful, lucid and impressive. About Roy Peter Clark Roy Peter Clark is an American writer, editor and teacher who is known for his classes on writing. The Senior Scholar and Vice President of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Dr. Clark completed his Ph.D. in English, specializing in medieval literature, from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has also written Free to Write: A Journalist Teaches Young Writers and The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English.