Richard Dowis

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).
This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. (help, get involved!)
This article has been tagged since November 2006.

Richard Dowis (born 1930) is a writer and president of the Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature (SPELL). This Waleska, Georgia resident authored The Lost Art of the Great Speech (1999, ISBN 0-8144-7054-8), a treatise for speechwriters. Dowis, along with Richard Lederer, authored Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay (and that's no lie) (1999, ISBN 0-312-26394-5), as well as The Write Way: The S.P.E.L.L. Guide to Real-Life Writing (1995, ISBN 0-671-52670-7) — which outlines the proper use of grammar, punctuation, spelling, and style in the English language.


United States  This article about an American writer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../r/i/c/Richard_Dowis_1e2c.html"