Style & Strategy: For Powerful Writing & Speaking
Style & Strategy is a complete theory and practice resource for composing language-based materials. It covers accurate, clear, and versatile writing; solid argumentation; and engaging oral-visual presentations, drawing from wisdom through the ages. For today's writers, editors, and orators at all levels and in all roles to strategically craft powerful messages that better resonate with your intended audiences.

22 points on accuracy help you master English syntax. Today's most common errors are covered in short presentations with ample exercises and quizzes.

6 points on sentence manipulation strategy build your collection of compositional tools for impact. These sections give you all of the syntactic and semantic force you need to build powerful strategic messages with accuracy and clarity.

Analyses of 18 writing styles give you all you need to emulate each style:
Writing styles: Academic, Analytical, Blog, Business, Copywriting, Creative, Descriptive, Expository, Journalistic, Narrative, Oral presentation script, Personal, Persuasive, Review, Script (play or screenplay), Summary, Technical, Travel

Aristotle's logos, ethos, and pathos provides deeper insights to empower your compositions.

Argument structure coverage helps ensure your arguments are maximally persuasive.

An oral presentations discussion empowers you to make your speeches land with the impact you want.

A full discussion of best practices for visual communication, specifically slide-deck construction and delivery, improves engagement and impact

This is the powerhouse resource you've been waiting for. It answers your essential composition questions quickly, concisely, and very easily, with full exercise support.

If you liked Elements of Style (Strunk 1918), you will LOVE this.

It's easy to outshine the bots with these insights. If you need to compose anything for an audience, ever, don't be without this essential resource. It's short, on point, and incredibly helpful.
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Style & Strategy: For Powerful Writing & Speaking
Style & Strategy is a complete theory and practice resource for composing language-based materials. It covers accurate, clear, and versatile writing; solid argumentation; and engaging oral-visual presentations, drawing from wisdom through the ages. For today's writers, editors, and orators at all levels and in all roles to strategically craft powerful messages that better resonate with your intended audiences.

22 points on accuracy help you master English syntax. Today's most common errors are covered in short presentations with ample exercises and quizzes.

6 points on sentence manipulation strategy build your collection of compositional tools for impact. These sections give you all of the syntactic and semantic force you need to build powerful strategic messages with accuracy and clarity.

Analyses of 18 writing styles give you all you need to emulate each style:
Writing styles: Academic, Analytical, Blog, Business, Copywriting, Creative, Descriptive, Expository, Journalistic, Narrative, Oral presentation script, Personal, Persuasive, Review, Script (play or screenplay), Summary, Technical, Travel

Aristotle's logos, ethos, and pathos provides deeper insights to empower your compositions.

Argument structure coverage helps ensure your arguments are maximally persuasive.

An oral presentations discussion empowers you to make your speeches land with the impact you want.

A full discussion of best practices for visual communication, specifically slide-deck construction and delivery, improves engagement and impact

This is the powerhouse resource you've been waiting for. It answers your essential composition questions quickly, concisely, and very easily, with full exercise support.

If you liked Elements of Style (Strunk 1918), you will LOVE this.

It's easy to outshine the bots with these insights. If you need to compose anything for an audience, ever, don't be without this essential resource. It's short, on point, and incredibly helpful.
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Style & Strategy: For Powerful Writing & Speaking

Style & Strategy: For Powerful Writing & Speaking

by Michele Poff, PhD
Style & Strategy: For Powerful Writing & Speaking

Style & Strategy: For Powerful Writing & Speaking

by Michele Poff, PhD

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Overview

Style & Strategy is a complete theory and practice resource for composing language-based materials. It covers accurate, clear, and versatile writing; solid argumentation; and engaging oral-visual presentations, drawing from wisdom through the ages. For today's writers, editors, and orators at all levels and in all roles to strategically craft powerful messages that better resonate with your intended audiences.

22 points on accuracy help you master English syntax. Today's most common errors are covered in short presentations with ample exercises and quizzes.

6 points on sentence manipulation strategy build your collection of compositional tools for impact. These sections give you all of the syntactic and semantic force you need to build powerful strategic messages with accuracy and clarity.

Analyses of 18 writing styles give you all you need to emulate each style:
Writing styles: Academic, Analytical, Blog, Business, Copywriting, Creative, Descriptive, Expository, Journalistic, Narrative, Oral presentation script, Personal, Persuasive, Review, Script (play or screenplay), Summary, Technical, Travel

Aristotle's logos, ethos, and pathos provides deeper insights to empower your compositions.

Argument structure coverage helps ensure your arguments are maximally persuasive.

An oral presentations discussion empowers you to make your speeches land with the impact you want.

A full discussion of best practices for visual communication, specifically slide-deck construction and delivery, improves engagement and impact

This is the powerhouse resource you've been waiting for. It answers your essential composition questions quickly, concisely, and very easily, with full exercise support.

If you liked Elements of Style (Strunk 1918), you will LOVE this.

It's easy to outshine the bots with these insights. If you need to compose anything for an audience, ever, don't be without this essential resource. It's short, on point, and incredibly helpful.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798260364796
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date: 11/15/2025
Series: Style & Strategy , #1
Pages: 118
Product dimensions: 8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Dr. Michele Poff earned her BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley, a top-ranked program. She earned a Master of Arts in applied linguistics from Portland State University in Oregon, where she focused on genre analysis, English syntax, and teaching / materials design. She then earned a Doctor of Philosophy in communication from University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, another top-ranked program. Here, she engaged in advanced studies of persuasion and Aristotle, argumentation, public speaking, and visual communication under some of the world's top scholars in these fields. After teaching writing in the university classroom for some years, Dr. Poff, a Mensa member, then applied her vast and well-developed English mastery skills to professional writing and editing projects across the genres. Her work represents years of study and practice in the areas she writes about.
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