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Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (initially Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace) is a book by Joseph M. Williams, a professor (emeritus) in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. The author claims and aspitres to demonstrate that “it is good to write clearly, and anyone can.” (Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (9th Edition) 4). The book has gone through numerous editions (see the list below), and become a widely recommended text for graduate and post-graduate writing classes.

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Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 2007 edition.

Content

  • Preface

Part One: Style as Choice

  • Lesson One: Understanding Style
  • Lesson Two: Correctness

Part Two: Clarity

  • Lesson Three: Actions
  • Lesson Four: Characters
  • Lesson Five: Cohesion and Coherence
  • Lesson Six: Emphasis

Part Three: Grace

  • Lesson Seven: Concision
  • Lesson Eight: Shape
  • Lesson Nine: Elegance

Part Four: Form

  • Lesson Ten: Motivating Coherence
  • Lesson Eleven: Global Coherence

Part Five: Ethics

  • Lesson Twelve: The Ethics of Style
  • Appendix: Punctuation
  • Glossary
  • Suggested Answers
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

Editions in print

  • Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. 9th Edition. New York: Pearson Longman (2007) ISBN-10: 0321479351 ISBN-13: 978-0321479358 (paper)
  • Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace. 2nd Edition (2006) ISBN-10: 0321330854

ISBN-13: 978-0321330857 (paper)

  • Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (1995) ISBN-10: 0226899152 ISBN-13: 978-0226899152 (paper)

Earlier editions

  • Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman (1981, 1985, 1989), New York: HarperCollins (1989, 1994), New York: Longman (1997, 2000, 2003), Toronto: Longman (2005), New York: Pearson Longman (2005)
  • Style : The Basics of Clarity and Grace. New York: Longman (2003)
  • Style: Toward Clarity and Grace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1990) with two chapters coauthored by Gregory G. Colomb

Translations

Russian (2003, 2005)[1]

On-line reviews

  • Review of Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace. 6th Edition (1999) by Roy Johnson[2]
  • Review of Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (1990) by J. Bradford[3]
  • Review of of Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (1990) by Susan Stepney[4]

Notes

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