Style Lessons In Clarity And Grace Summary

In the book by Joseph M. Williams and Joseph Bizup, entitled, “Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 12th Edition,” the authors provided advice to students on writing basic clarity; summarizing the principles of forming sentence structures that readers can comprehend. The authors approach to help students manage the tedious sentence revisions and organized sources; this allows students to focus on ideas prior to the due date. In In each chapter exercises, the authors illustrate techniques for students to write with the readers in mind. The objective of these summaries will focus on three lessons: actions, characters, and concisions that will improve on students writing style and sentence structure (Moskey and Williams 28).
Actions:
An action describes what the subject of the sentence does (32, 47-48). Actions convey an emotion of a specific purpose, which adds meaning to the context. The absence of action verbs will make the sentence(s) unclear or vague. Students encounter rambling or vague stories in their writing when their sentences contain a lack of clarity. When students write with vague words such as almost, apparently, or about, confuse the readers on what the hook of the …show more content…
In each chapter exercises, the authors illustrate techniques for students to write with the readers in mind. The objective of these summaries will focus on three lessons: actions, characters, and concisions that will improve on students writing style and sentence structure (Moskey and Williams 28). Vague writing weakens a student’s creative expression. Therefore, students must choose their subject and action verb precisely for readers to know their main point of view for each character (29). Students can eliminate redundancy by choosing inclusive words to convey the information concisely in their stories (132,