From the Back Cover
Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, Ninth Edition
Joseph M. Williams
Why have thousands of college writers loved–and learned from–this book? Listen to what Joseph Williams has to say:
“The ninth edition of Style aims at answering the same questions I asked in the earlier ones:
* What is it in a sentence that makes readers judge it as they do?
* How do we diagnose our own prose to anticipate their judgments?
* How do we revise a sentence so that readers will think better of it?
The standard advice about writing ignores those questions. It is mostly truisms like Make a plan, Don’t use the passive, Think of your audience–advice that most of us ignore as we wrestle ideas out onto the page. When I drafted this paragraph, I wasn’t thinking about you; I was struggling to get my own ideas straight. I did know that I would come back to these sentences again and again, and that it would be only then–as I revised–that I could think about you and discover the plan that fit my draft. I also knew that as I did so, there were some principles I could rely on. This book explains them.”
Now even better, Style, Ninth Edition, includes more on:
* How gifted writers manipulate the language of argument and thereby our responses to its logic and substance, and the ethical implications of that manipulation
* How to work quotations into the flow of a sentence gracefully
* Plagiarism–why readers suspect it, and how writers can avoid the mistaken perception of it.
Also new to this edition are “Quick Tips,” short bits of practical advice about how to deal with some common problems.
具体描述
读后感
Writing is a difficult task (to say nothing of writing with a second language), no one is in more need of guidance and help than a writer who doesn’t know how to put her thoughts into words in a captivating and convincing way. “Style toward Clarity and Gr...
评分Writing is a difficult task (to say nothing of writing with a second language), no one is in more need of guidance and help than a writer who doesn’t know how to put her thoughts into words in a captivating and convincing way. “Style toward Clarity and Gr...
评分1. Don’t begin sentences with and or but. If you want to begin a sentence with a clause expressing familiar information about causation, introduce the clause with since, because since implies that the reader already knows what is in the clause: 2. Use the ...
评分本人MTI专业研一学生，开学初笔译课老师推荐了好几本讲简明英语写作的书，当时很是困惑，读罢此书豁然开朗，对翻译也大有启发，聊以记之—— 翻译也该“以人为本” ——阅读Style--Lessons in Clarity and Grace有感 细细读完整本书，作者开始讲到如何写得简洁易懂，再讲到如何...
评分作nlp（natural language processing）的师兄推荐的。在被老板屡次complain writing以后，本来打算当床上读物浏览一遍，一翻之下，惊为天人啊！ 本书我正在读，不敢妄评，然而刚读到clarity已觉受益匪浅。目前的 感受：专业，实用。 (1) 专业 看preface感谢部分提到chomsky，...
用户评价
非常有个性的写作指导，目前觉得前三章比较受用
评分写！作！圣！经！但是里面的rules只适用于学术写作（和应用文），文学类作品不适用，当然也没有什么能限制文学作品的语言。
评分renaissance的老师也推荐来着.当时没大看懂politics and english language，现在看着觉得不仅是politics，一言一语关系grace! 现在理解这里的老师们了，他们可是在一直看我们国际学生的咆哮文哇。
评分renaissance的老师也推荐来着.当时没大看懂politics and english language，现在看着觉得不仅是politics，一言一语关系grace! 现在理解这里的老师们了，他们可是在一直看我们国际学生的咆哮文哇。
评分renaissance的老师也推荐来着.当时没大看懂politics and english language，现在看着觉得不仅是politics，一言一语关系grace! 现在理解这里的老师们了，他们可是在一直看我们国际学生的咆哮文哇。
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