Style : toward clarity and grace / Joseph M. Williams ; with two chapters coauthored by Gregory Colomb.
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, Jose...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1990.
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| Series: | Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 208 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 191) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0226899144 9780226899145 0226899152 9780226899152 |