Francis-Nöel Thomas is professor emeritus of humanities at Truman College, City Colleges of Chicago.
Mark Turner is Institute Professor and professor of cognitive science at Case Western Reserve University.
For more than a decade, Clear and Simple as the Truth has guided readers to consider style not as an elegant accessory of effective prose but as its very heart. Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner present writing as an intellectual activity, not a passive application of verbal skills. In classic style, the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader and writer are intellectual equals, and the occasion is informal. This general style of presentation is at home everywhere, from business memos to personal letters and from magazine articles to student essays. Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart.
At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only people learned the principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't good prose simply fall into place? Thomas and Turner say no. Attending to rules of grammar, sense, and sentence structure will no more lead to effective prose than knowing the mechanics of a golf swing will lead to a hole-in-one. Furthermore, ten-step programs to better writing exacerbate the problem by failing to recognize, as Thomas and Turner point out, that there are many styles with different standards.
The book is divided into four parts. The first, "Principles of Classic Style," defines the style and contrasts it with a number of others. "The Museum" is a guided tour through examples of writing, both exquisite and execrable. "The Studio," new to this edition, presents a series of structured exercises. Finally, "Further Readings in Classic Prose" offers a list of additional examples drawn from a range of times, places, and subjects. A companion website, classicprose.com, offers supplementary examples, exhibits, and commentary, and features a selection of pieces written by students in courses that used Clear and Simple as the Truth as a textbook.
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读的想死,这根本不是教你怎么写作的一本书,这是认知学的书啊!!!
评分刷新世界观,解答了我的很多困惑,让我认识到patrick对于我的训练的深层意义,以及这本书恰恰几乎全是classic style
评分这本书反正不是classic style 初衷不错,但写得实在一遍,我需要冷静一阵子再回看
评分刷新世界观,解答了我的很多困惑,让我认识到patrick对于我的训练的深层意义,以及这本书恰恰几乎全是classic style
评分读的想死,这根本不是教你怎么写作的一本书,这是认知学的书啊!!!
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