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.
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读后感
作为翻译专业的学生，大二结束才读到这本英语写作入门书真的太晚了。读完发现自己这十几年来接受的英语写作训练完全偏离了写作的初衷，好像英语写作不是为了清晰明了地表达自己的观点，而是为了展示自己的词汇量和炫技。 虽然是英语原版书，但这本书的难度并不大，词汇和内容都...
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，...
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 ...
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非常有个性的写作指导，目前觉得前三章比较受用
评分not bad
评分非常有个性的写作指导，目前觉得前三章比较受用
评分9th edition 想来，跟之前看的中式英语之鉴有异曲同工之妙
评分非常有个性的写作指导，目前觉得前三章比较受用
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