Figgis ended up doing a top-to-bottom rewrite so thorough, its original writer didn't even take a story credit.
Classic reference books like Strunk and White's "Elements of Style" and William K. Zinsser's "On Writing Well" are thorough sources for writers of both fiction and nonfiction, but their focus on grammar and other supposedly arcane topics makes them slow going.
That "beam," when directed by a writer as thorough and intuitive as Wineapple, brightens not only the pale figures of the poet and the hitherto elusive colonel but the poems for which, upon occasion, Dickinson drew inspiration from Higginson's more active life.
Thereafter, he made a more thorough study of Socialist writers.
The Medusa Chronicles (Gollancz, £16.99) brings the strengths of both writers – a thorough grasp of scientific principles and the ability to present them in well-paced, engaging narratives – to the story of Howard Falcon, an astronaut rebuilt after a terrible accident as a man-machine hybrid, in effect an immortal cyborg.
Mr. Pope is not a natural writer but a thorough one.
Even so, the technical writer must have thorough knowledge of the rules of grammar and style, as breaking them by accident will harm clarity.
Golf Weekly, an American publication, is pretty thorough, has some very good writers and is done with a touch of humour.
Other NEL writers were more thorough in their research methods.
Cohen is a fine reporter, thorough researcher, original thinker and stylish writer.
