Download or read book Political Writing: A Guide to the Essentials written by Adam Garfinkle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing well, and persuasively, is not only a discipline that can be learned, it is one deeply rooted in the classical arts of rhetoric and polemic. This book introduces the essential skills, rules, and steps for producing effective political prose appropriate to many contexts, from the editorial, the op-ed, and the polemical essay to others both weighty and seemingly slight.