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# Style: Ten Lessons In Clarity And Grace

**Brand:** joseph m. williams
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Best of the Best
  

*by B***L on Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2006*

It is difficult to know where to begin. I am writing a brief review of this book to counter the negative reviews I read.  I was stunned: I expected to read rave reviews of Professor Williams' book. Without wanting to offend anyone, they are for the most part so far off the mark I would think they were talking about another book.One author mentioned Strunk and White's book as the ideal.  As much as I loved this book when I was young, it seems slightly old-fashioned, even quaint now, and encourages an attention to rules that seems superficial.  On the other hand, Williams' book takes advantage of the more systematic, deep approach to language, rhetoric and communication that was developed by the best linguists of the 20th century.  There is a good reason that this book has had so many editions for such a long period of time (now in the 8th edition). It is because it is based on an insight that touches a deep truth about communicating in writing: that subjects and verbs, or characters and their actions as Williams helpfully calls them at times, form the basic elements of the English sentence. It is Williams' ability to draw out the implications of this simple truth that gives his book its genius.  Emerson once said that rhythm is the deep structure of the universe (he said it better but I can't remember his words); I feel that Emerson would smile in agreement at Williams thesis: that it is an understanding of the significance of the basic character/action relationship between the subject and verb that gives a sentence its strength and, on a "higher" level, the same systole/diastole relationship between theme and discussion that gives a paragraph its strength.I am by no means doing Professor Williams' book justice, and I would not have written this review if the others had not been so, well, wrong.  His writing bad?  On the contrary, good writing, as Williams points out in a useful addition to one of the later editions of his book on controlling longer sentences, does not mean Dick and Jane type sentences, and he does not allow himself to fall into Strunk and White's tendency to oversimplify in explaining his ideas.  I am now directing an English language program at a major university in Thailand after teaching English at Indiana University for 20 years, and I was recently asked to teach a graduate course on writing. What book did I first reach for in looking for the most substantial, concrete, practical and useful lessons on writing so that my students would not be exposed to the usual platitudes on omitting needless words and relying on your taste to be your guide?  Professor Williams' book of course.  It is the best of the best and will reward you endlessly as you apply his basic insights in your own writing.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Surprisingly Practical
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2007*

I view writing manuals with more than a hint of jaundice, but I found this one surprisingly practical. I first encountered in in law school, and the examples and exercises helped me to understand where people would find my writing confusing, even when I thought I was being clear.  It also helped me become a better editor -- because I could explain to other writers where they were stumbling and how to correct it.I lost my copy when I moved after law school, and immediately bought another one -- money being perhaps the most telling recommendation of all.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    essential.
  

*by C***O on Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2015*

An essential for anyone endeavoring to write well.

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