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Titel: Clear and Simple As the Truth: Writing ...

Verlag: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1994

Einband: Hardcover

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This text aims to explain prose style, and in doing so, provokes the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart. At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, wh at can be done? If only people learned the principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't good prose simply fall into place? This book says no. Attending to rules of grammar, sense, and sentence structure will no more lead to effective prose than knowing the mechanics of a golf swing will lead to a hole-in-one. Furthermore, ten-step programs to better writing exacerbate the problem by failing to recognize, as this work points out, that there are many styles with different standards. In the first half of the book the authors introduce a range of styles - reflexive, practical, plain, contemplative, romantic, prophetic, and others - contrasting them to classic style. Its principles are simple: the writer adopts the pose that the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader is an intellectual equal, and the occasion is informal. Classic style is at home in everything from business memos to personal letters, from magazine articles to university writing. The second half of the book is a tour of examples - the exquisite and the execrable - showing what has worked and what hasn't. Classic prose is found everywhere: from Thomas Jefferson to Junichiro Tanizaki, from Mark Twain to the observations of an undergraduate. Here are many fine performances in classic style, each clear and simple as the truth.

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Francis-Noel Thomas is Professor of Humanities at Truman College in Chicago.

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