Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace
by Joseph M. Williams and Joseph Bizup
The best textbook on clear prose: characters as subjects, actions as verbs, cohesion, emphasis, concision. More systematic than Strunk and White and more useful.
Read it if…
you write for work and want to be clear at the sentence level.
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Skip it if…
you want inspiration; this is instruction.
Try instead: Louder Than Words →
Three things you will actually use
- Make characters subjects and actions verbs.
- Old information first, new last.
- Cut what readers do not need.
Do this first
Revise one paragraph using the characters-and-actions principle.
Our verdict
Clarity, taught.
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