Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace / Edition 12

by Joseph Williams, Joseph Bizup

Overview

For courses in English and Writing.

Emphasizes the importance of style in writing for a global audience

Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace asserts that style is a matter of making informed choices in the service of one’s readers. While writers know best what they want to say, readers ultimately decide if they’ve said it well. This flagship text builds on that premise, with updates on subjects such as gender-neutral writing and writing for global audiences. It brings the authors’ innovative approach to the needs of today’s students, while maintaining that writing with style is a civic and ethical virtue.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780134080413
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	01/04/2016
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	223,559
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Joseph Bizup is Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policies in the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University.

Joe's interests have ranged over the years from Victorian literature and culture to cognitive psychology and linguistics, to writing studies, writing pedagogy and writing program administration. What unites these interests is his concern with the ways in which language, especially written language, functions and circulates within social, intellectual, and institutional systems. His first book, Manufacturing Culture: Vindications of Early Victorian Industry (2003), examines strains of preindustrial rhetoric in 19th century Britain. The bulk of his later work has been more pedagogical in focus. His approach to teaching research-based writing, known as “BEAM,” has been adopted by a number of colleges and universities, and he has contributed as a coauthor or editor to several textbooks, including The Norton Reader (13th, 14th , and 15th editions), The Craft of Research (4th edition), Kate L. Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (9th edition), Kate L. Turabian's Student's Guide to Writing College Papers (5th edition) and Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (11th, 12th and 13th editions).

Additionally, Joe directed the College of Arts & Sciences Writing Program at Boston University and the Undergraduate Writing Program at Columbia University and he codirected the Bass Writing Program at Yale University. He holds a B.A. in English and mathematics from the University of Virginia, an M.A. in English from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in English from Indiana University.

Table of Contents

• I. STYLE AS CHOICE
• 1. Understanding Style
• 2. Correctness
• II. CLARITY
• 3. Actions
• 4. Characters
• 5. Cohesion and Coherence
• 6. Emphasis
• III. CLARITY OF FORM
• 7. Motivation
• 8. Global Coherence
• IV. GRACE
• 9. Concision
• 10. Shape
• 11. Elegance
• V. ETHICS
• 12. The Ethics of Style
• Appendix I: Punctuation
• Appendix II: Using Sources
• Glossary
• Suggested Answers
• Acknowledgments
• Index