About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Longman Pub Group
Date Published: 2008-01-31
ISBN-13:9780205605354ISBN:0205605354
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780321112521ISBN:0321112520
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Publisher: Longman
Date Published: 2002
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Longman
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780205605354ISBN:0205605354
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Pearson P T R
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780205605354ISBN:0205605354
Description: Paperback. Used. Free Edition: Same as student edition but has free copy markings. May include moderately worn cover, writing, markings or slight discoloration. SKU: 23758721 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780205605354 Used. Free Edition: Same as student edition but has free copy markings. May include moderately worn cover, writing, markings or slight discoloration. SKU: 23758721 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee. read more
Edition: 3rd edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson P T R
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780205605354ISBN:0205605354
Description: New. 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... read more
"This is my favorite left-brained writing book. It's taking me forever to read it, but that's okay, and when I finish, I might just go back and read it again. I like it that Williams gets me to think about sentences. I naturally write like a runner, as if getting to the finish line first were the only measure of success. I'm too damn old to run like a runner any more, no why not plug on with paragraphs and pages as if they were timed laps on the track? But of course that isn't the way writing works. It's more like a performance than a race, slow and persnickety.
This book works mostly at the sentence level, which is my weakest point. The examples come from business and technical writing, but that's okay -- it doesn't take much imagination to generalize the lessons. Like all writing books, it's a bunch of ideas stated as facts. That's okay too. We don't have anything to go on but ideas."
"Joe Williams knows what he is talking about. His rhetorical analysis toward the end of the book was extremely interesting and gave me new insights into how historical figures write."
"This is a brilliant little guide to improving your writing that I wish I had known about when I was an English teacher.
Williams begins with the basics and builds up to chapters on style and usage. The underlying themes throughout are two: Good writing is not limited to professional authors - anyone can do it with sufficient practice and a decent amount of concern about what you write; and the rules of grammar and syntax are guides to clear communication. Writers can "bend" and even break them in the interests of that communication.
Definitely recommended to anyone who writes (prose, poetry or nonfiction) and to those of us who edit them."
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