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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... Lincoln's 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 ...
... Lincoln's style quickens through a series of short clauses as he introduces God as a character , not yet as an ... Lincoln implies that God can act , but has not yet acted as either side has prayed : that we be not judged [ by God ...
... Lincoln seem to use the word sys- tematically ? Compare it to how he uses the word slavery and words for it , such as interest and cause . Exercise 10.5 Lincoln distanced God from slavery as deliberately as the writer of the automobile ...
Contents
PART TWO Clarity | 31 |
PART THREE Grace | 113 |
PART FOUR Ethics | 183 |
Copyright | |
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