Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (also known as Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace and Style: Toward Clarity and Grace) is a book by Joseph M. Williams

Joseph M. Williams

Joseph M. Williams was a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.Williams began as a researcher of English language...

, late professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

. The author claims and aspires to demonstrate that “it is good to write clearly, and anyone can.” (Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (9th Edition) 4). The book, based on a course, "The Little Red Schoolhouse," taught for many years at Chicago by Williams, has gone through numerous editions and become a popular text for writing classes.

Part Two: Clarity

• Lesson Three: Actions
• Lesson Four: Characters
• Lesson Five: Cohesion and Coherence
• Lesson Six: Emphasis

Part Five: Ethics

• Lesson Twelve: The Ethics of Style

• Appendix: Punctuation
• Glossary
• Suggested Answers
• Acknowledgments
• Index

Editions in print

• Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. 9th Edition. New York: Pearson Longman (2007) ISBN 0321479351 ISBN 978-0321479358 (paper)
• Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace. 2nd Edition (2006) ISBN 0321330854 ISBN 978-0321330857 (paper)
• Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (1995) ISBN 0226899152 ISBN 978-0226899152 (paper)

Earlier editions

• Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman (1981, 1985, 1989), New York: HarperCollins (1989, 1994), New York: Longman (1997, 2000, 2003), Toronto: Longman (2005), New York: Pearson Longman (2005)
• Style : The Basics of Clarity and Grace. New York: Longman (2003)
• Style: Toward Clarity and Grace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1990) with two chapters coauthored by Gregory G. Colomb
  Gregory G. Colomb
  Gregory G. Colomb was a professor of the English language and literature and Director of Writing Programs at the University of Virginia. His research interests were in writing studies, 18th century literature, and theory. He studied at Rice University and University of Virginia...
  
  

On-line reviews

• Review of Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (1990) by J. Bradford http://econ161.berkeley.edu/econ_articles/reviews/williams.html
• Review of Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (1990) by Susan Stepneyhttp://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/bib/nf/w/jsphmwll.htm

External links

• Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 9th ed., at Pearson Longman
• Style: Toward Clarity and Grace at UoCP
• Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity & Grace, 1st. ed., at Amazon
• http://www.econ.duke.edu/ecoteach/undergrad/forms/Four%20steps%20to%20better%20writing.pdf Four steps to better writing, a handout prepared by Paul Dudenhefer based on Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace