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Title: Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (CHICAGO GUIDES TO WRITING, EDITING, AND PUBLISHING) by Joseph M. Williams ISBN: 0-226-89915-2 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.48 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.76 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great insights into the cognitive processes of reading
Comment: If you are like me, you have long known you had an aptitude for writing but been amazed at the range of your experiences as a writer. At times you've been told you write with amazing force and clarity, while at others you've been told your writing is verbose and even "chatty." Why the disparity?
You'll understand why when you read this book. More than any other work I've seen, this book provides insight into how the mind operates during reading and applies this insight to the process of writing. Williams makes explicit the many subtle and not so subtle patterns and principles that govern how the mind comprehends writing. If you've had the experience of writing well--and not so well--but not realized why, this book will help you by revealing the principles of clarity that you've been applying intuitively for years--and those you haven't. This is a demanding but very rewarding book that would be of enormous value not only to writers, but to editors and even casual readers who want to deepen their appreciation of what makes lucid writing what it is. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you write, buy this book.
Comment: It's a shame that this excellent book is not better known. I stumbled upon it after I had learned, the hard way, many of the "secrets" of good writing that Williams lays out for you here. What he does, unlike all the other advice-givers, is explain and show how to make your writing easy to understand and a pleasure to read. His own writing is crystal clear, and he provides examples that he fully analyzes to show, without fuzziness, why he claims that one approach is better than another. If you *really* want to improve your writing, buy this book and work your way through it. By the end, your writing will be better than that of 99% of your classmates or co-workers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sound Advice, Explicit Instruction
Comment: Even if the authors themselves don't always exemplify clarity and grace in their own writing, their techniques are the most useful and practical I've ever seen in a how-to book. What they do is show you HOW to implement Strunk & White's advice, by giving you explicit, step-by-step instruction on what you must do to "Be concise" and "Omit needless words" and achieve clarity, coherence, and perhaps even (God willing) grace. So what if Williams & Colomb don't write as beautifully as E. B. White or as pungently as Will Strunk? If you take the trouble to learn their eminently sensible techniques, your writing will improve dramatically and you will never again produce the kind of ghastly prose found in most doctoral dissertations, to take a particularly egregious genre. That in itself is a great boon to mankind.
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Title: Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace (7th Edition) by Joseph M. Williams ISBN: 0321095170 Publisher: Pearson Longman Pub. Date: 07 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $37.20 |
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Title: The Craft of Research (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by Wayne C. Booth, Joseph M. Williams, Gregory G. Colomb ISBN: 0226065685 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: On Writing Well, 25th Anniversary : The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William K. Zinsser ISBN: 0060006641 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 18 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Line by Line : How to Edit Your Own Writing by Claire Kehrwald Cook ISBN: 0395393914 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 30 June, 1986 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr., E.B. White, Roger Angell ISBN: 020530902X Publisher: Pearson Higher Education Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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