Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and GraceStyle: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 6/e, presents principles of writing to help students diagnose their prose quickly and revise it effectively. Divided into four sections Style as Choice, Clarity, Grace, and new to this edition, Ethics the text features new principles of effective prose, chapter summaries for quick and easy review, and group exercises that encourage students to work and learn together. Williams empowers students to use their writing not only as a tool to identify and solve problems, but also as a method to explore their own thinking. |
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... revise theirs and they can revise yours back to the originals . Exercise 3.6 Now do the reverse . Make up some sentences using some of the nominalizations you created in Exercise 3.3 ; then try to express the same idea using ...
... revise theirs and they can revise yours back to the originals . Exercise 3.6 Now do the reverse . Make up some sentences using some of the nominalizations you created in Exercise 3.3 ; then try to express the same idea using ...
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... revise : Model : Your revision : 1a . Some have ARGUED that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will almost certainly ELEVATE global temperature . 1b . There has been speculation by educa- tors as to the positive effect of a good family ...
... revise : Model : Your revision : 1a . Some have ARGUED that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will almost certainly ELEVATE global temperature . 1b . There has been speculation by educa- tors as to the positive effect of a good family ...
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... Revise them , then bring the originals to class to exchange with other students who will have done the same thing . Revise each other's prose ; then compare your revisions of your own writing with someone else's revision of your writing ...
... Revise them , then bring the originals to class to exchange with other students who will have done the same thing . Revise each other's prose ; then compare your revisions of your own writing with someone else's revision of your writing ...
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