Style Toward Clarity and Grace

Name: Style Toward Clarity and Grace
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ISBN: 9780226899152

ISBN-10: 0226899152

ISBN-13: 9780226899152

Edition: 1995 (Reprint)

Authors: Joseph M. Williams

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This acclaimed book is a master teacher's tested program for turning clumsy prose into clear, powerful, and effective writing. A logical, expert, easy-to-use plan for achieving excellence in expression, Style offers neither simplistic rules nor endless lists of dos and don'ts. Rather, Joseph Williams explains how to be concise, how to be focused, how to be organized. Filled with realistic examples of good, bad, and better writing, and step-by-step strategies for crafting a sentence or organizing a paragraph, Style does much more than teach mechanics: it helps anyone who must write clearly and persuasively transform even the roughest of drafts into a polished work of clarity, coherence,…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 226
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface



Causes



Clarity



Cohesion



Emphasis



Coherence I With Gregory G. Colomb



Coherence II With Gregory G. Colomb



Concision



Length



Elegance



Usage


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index