Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and GraceThe best-selling style book, Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, Seventh Edition , presents principles of writing to help students diagnose their prose quickly and revise it effectively. The four sections Style as Choice, Clarity, Grace, and Ethics feature new principles of effective prose, chapter summaries for quick and easy review, and group exercises that encourage students to work and learn together. Williams offers these principles as reason-based approaches to improving prose, rather than hard and fast rules to writing well. Style, 7/e, empowers students to use their writing not only as a tool to identify and solve problems, but also as a method for exploring their own thinking. |
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... Gettysburg Address , and his Second Inaugural Address . In previous editions of this book , I discussed how the styles of the Gettysburg Address and the Declaration are not innocently clear . Here I examine the style of Lincoln's Second ...
... address than there was at the first . Then a statement , somewhat in detail , of a course to be pursued , seemed ... Gettysburg Address : Now we are engaged in a great Civil War , 196 Style : Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace.
... speech ? Exercise 10.9 There are 262 words in the Gettysburg Address . Count the nominalizations ( ignore the words living and the dead , but include battle in battleground ) . How does the relative fre- quency of nominalizations affect ...
Contents
PART TWO Clarity | 31 |
PART THREE Grace | 113 |
PART FOUR Ethics | 183 |
Copyright | |
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