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Style – Toward Clarity & Grace New Edition
Author(s): Jm Williams (Author)
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date: 13 July 1995
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 0226899152
- ISBN-13: 9780226899152
Book Description
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, impact, and personality.
“Buy Williams’s book. And dig out from storage your dog-eared old copy of
The Elements of Style. Set them side by side on your reference shelf.”–Barbara Walraff, Atlantic“Let newcoming writers discover this, and let their teachers and readers rejoice. It is a practical, disciplined text that is also a pleasure to read.”–
Christian Century“An excellent book….It provides a sensible, well-balanced approach, featuring prescriptions that work.”–Donald Karzenski,
Journal of Business Communication“Intensive fitness training for the expressive mind.”–
BooklistA textbook edition with exercises,
Style is available from Longman.Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Joseph M. Williams is professor of English and linguistics at the University of Chicago.
