Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace (2nd Edition) Joseph M. Williams Digital Life Books

Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace (2nd Edition)
by: Joseph M. Williams

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.042
EAN: 9780321330857
ISBN: 0321330854
Label: Longman
Manufacturer: Longman
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: April 01, 2005
Publisher: Longman
Sales Rank: 25657
Studio: Longman

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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.

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- The Perfect Writing Guide
This book helped me to fine tune writing. Being a Department of State employee and considering myself an already excellent writer, I was able to reassess my composition and cut out the unnecessary verbage and get down to the facts in concise sentences.

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- Write better, now
Shorter than many of Williams' other similar works, Style is a great little book that any writer should read many times. His points on concision and clarity are must read for anybody who wants to improve their writing.

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- very clear
I am a non native speaker, and even though my grammar is not too bad, my writing style has always been a source of frustration. At work, when comparing the texts I would write with the one of good native writers, I could see that theirs were better, but could not find why.
I bought this book based on the high reviews it got on amazon, and I was not disappointed. After reading a few pages, I scanned the research proposal I was writing at the time, and could already make significant improvements on it. The advices that the author give are sometimes quite simple, especially at the beginning of the book (for example : the main character should be the subjects of the verbs, which themselves should correspond to the main action). But surprisingly, I realized that I was rarely applying these simple rules of clarity. The author is never dogmatic, and insists that the only thing that matters is that the reader easily ... Read More

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- a gem
I found an used copy of " The Basics of Clarity and Grace" at bookstore. After reading 3/4 of the book I ordered two more copies. One copy for my son who is a journalist major and the other for my eldest son who writes good comedy. I liked its size and its no nonesense approach.

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