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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."-- Booklist

(The college textbook version, Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace , 9th edition, is available from Longman. ISBN 9780321479358.)

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• Preface
• 1 Causes
• 2 Clarity
• 3 Cohesion
• 4 Emphasis
• 5 Coherence I With Gregory G. Colomb
• 6 Coherence II With Gregory G. Colomb
• 7 Concision
• 8 Length
• 9 Elegance
• 10 Usage
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index

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Library Journal Review

There is certainly no shortage of handbooks on writing, many of them packed with theory, description, rules, and perhaps some examples of good writing. What most lack is directions for improving bad writing--precisely what is offered by Williams ( Origins of the English Language , LJ 8/75). He first explains what constitutes poor writing and then presents and illustrates principles that will help writers produce sentences, paragraphs, and documents that clearly and directly communicate meaning to readers. Williams focuses on achieving gracefulness without sacrificing clarity. His delineation of the needs and problems of reader and writer is enlightening and helpful. Style is evidence that the author's approach works; it embodies the principles of clarity and grace it espouses. Highly recommended.-- Craig W. Beard, Harding Univ. Lib., Searcy, Ark. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

To fine-tune one's writing skills, it is necessary to understand why a sentence is unclear as well as how to fix it. Heavily grounded in linguistics and behavioral science, Style is a manual for serious writers, whether they are professionals or merely trying to produce readable interoffice communications. Chapters cover topics such as "Elegance," "Cohesion," "Length," and "Usage" and also train a writer to manage endings, avoid clotted abstractions, and eliminate pompous diction. Intensive fitness training for the expressive mind. Notes; to be indexed. ~--Cynthia Ogorek