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Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace, 3/E
Joseph M. Williams, University of Chicago

ISBN-10: 0205605354
ISBN-13: 9780205605354

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 160 pp
Published: 01/10/2008

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Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace reflects the wisdom and clear authorial voice of Williams’ best-selling book, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, while streamlining every chapter to create a very brief, yet powerfully direct guide to writing with style.

The concise clarity of this book makes it a quick and ideal guide for freshman composition courses, writing courses across the disciplines, and as a supporting text in courses that require clear and direct writing. Style: The Basics covers the elemental principles of writing that will help students diagnose the strengths and weaknesses of their prose quickly and revise effectively. The text features principles of effective prose written in Williams’ hallmark conversational style, offering reason-based principles, rather than hard and fast rules, for successful, effective writing.

  • Provides a direct, highly readable, and concise conversation on style for students learning the principles of successful writing.
  • Adapted from Williams' best-selling Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, now in its ninth edition.
  • Provides a model for good writing in any context clear, accessible prose.
  • Summarizes quick and easy steps to writing effectively.

  • Contains new principles and advice in every lesson, particularly lessons 2, 6, 7, and 8.
  • Includes an epigram after each lesson that captures its essence.
  • Introduces a new general principle of style covering not just individual sentences, but paragraphs, sections, and whole documents.

Preface

Lesson One: Understanding Style

Lesson Two: Correctness

Lesson Three: Actions

 

Lesson Four: Characters

Lesson Five: Cohesion and Coherence

Lesson Six: Emphasis

Lesson Seven: Concision

Lesson Eight: Shape

Lesson Nine:  Elegance

Lesson Ten: The Ethics of Style

 

    Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace reflects the wisdom and clear authorial voice of Williams best-selling book, Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, while streamlining every chapter to create a very brief, yet powerfully direct guide to writing with style.

    The brevity and clarity of this book make it a quick and ideal read for freshman composition courses, as well as for writing courses across the disciplines. Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace covers the elemental principles of writing that will help students diagnose their prose quickly and revise it effectively. The ten lessons feature principles of effective prose written in William's hallmark conversational style, offering reason-based approaches, rather than hard and fast rules, for successful, effective writing.
  • 0321330854Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace, 2/E
    Williams
    © 2006 | Longman | Paper; 160 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321330854 | ISBN-13: 9780321330857
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