Your textbook…

Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 9th Edition

By Joseph M. Williams

ISBN-10: 0-321-47935-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-321-47935-8What's this?

Published by Longman

Pub. Date: Dec 5, 2006

Format: Paper

Additional Course Materials

Description

Engaging and direct, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace is the guidebook for anyone who wants to write well.

Table of Contents

Preface.

I. STYLE AS CHOICE.

Lesson One: Understanding Style.

Lesson Two: Correctness.

II. CLARITY.

Lesson Three: Actions.

Lesson Four: Characters.

Lesson Five: Cohesion and Coherence.

Lesson Six: Emphasis.

III. GRACE.

Lesson Seven: Concision.

Lesson Eight: Shape.

Lesson Nine: Elegance.

IV. FORM

Lesson Ten:       Motivating Coherence

Lesson Eleven:   Global Coherence

V.  ETHICS.

Lesson Twelve: The Ethics of Style

Appendix: Punctuation.

Glossary.

Suggested Answers.

Index.

This textbook is also sold in the various packages listed below. Before purchasing one of these packages, speak with your professor about which one will help you be successful in your course.

Package ISBN-13: 9780205507177

$116.40 | Add to Cart

This package contains:

  • Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 9th Edition
    Joseph M. Williams | ©2007 | Paper; 304 pages
  • Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students, 4th Edition
    Sharon Crowley, Debra Hawhee | ©2009 | Cloth; 480 pages

Package ISBN-13: 9780205618354

$52.40 | Add to Cart

This package contains:

  • Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 9th Edition
    Joseph M. Williams | ©2007 | Paper; 304 pages
  • The Art of the Short Story
    Dana Gioia, R. S. Gwynn | ©2006 | Paper

Package ISBN-13: 9780205542697

$106.53 | Add to Cart

This package contains:

  • Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 9th Edition
    Joseph M. Williams | ©2007 | Paper; 304 pages
  • Fourth Genre, The: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction, 4th Edition
    Robert L. Root, Michael J. Steinberg | ©2007 | Paper; 544 pages

Package ISBN-13: 9780205639328

$116.27 | Add to Cart

This package contains:

  • Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 9th Edition
    Joseph M. Williams | ©2007 | Paper; 304 pages
  • Writing in the Sciences: Exploring Conventions of Scientific Discourse (Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication), 2nd Edition
    Ann M. Penrose, Steven B. Katz | ©2004 | Paper; 464 pages

Package ISBN-13: 9780205640669

$112.20 | Add to Cart

This package contains:

  • Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 9th Edition
    Joseph M. Williams | ©2007 | Paper; 304 pages
  • Little, Brown Handbook, The (with What Every Student Should Know About Using a Handbook), 10th Edition
    H. Ramsey Fowler, Jane E. Aaron | ©2007 | Cloth Package; 992 pages

Package ISBN-13: 9780205644131

$45.33 | Add to Cart

This package contains:

  • Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 9th Edition
    Joseph M. Williams | ©2007 | Paper; 304 pages
  • Build-Your-Own CourseCompass Student Access Kit
    Allyn & Bacon/Longman | ©2003 | Paper

Package ISBN-13: 9780205729500

$45.33 | Add to Cart

This package contains:

  • Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 9th Edition
    Joseph M. Williams | ©2007 | Paper; 304 pages
  • Pearson Guide to the 2008 MLA Updates
    Pearson | ©2009 | Paper; 16 pages

Package ISBN-13: 9780205626410

$102.00 | Add to Cart

This package contains:

  • Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 9th Edition
    Joseph M. Williams | ©2007 | Paper; 304 pages
  • Having Your Say
    Davida H. Charney, Christine M. Neuwirth, David S. Kaufer, Cheryl A. Geisler | ©2006 | Paper; 528 pages

Package ISBN-13: 9780135034255

$93.60 | Add to Cart

This package contains:

  • Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 9th Edition
    Joseph M. Williams | ©2007 | Paper; 304 pages
  • Professional and Public Writing: A Rhetoric and Reader for Advanced Composition
    Linda S. Coleman, Robert W. Funk | ©2005 | Paper; 336 pages

Textbook

List Price: $45.33

Add to Shopping Cart

Members pay only $40.80

Free FedEx Ground Shipping.