Hi, Gavin,
Joseph Williams's Style: Toward Clarity and Grace is here on my shelf.
Brad DeLong -- an economist whose prose I admire -- ranks it above
Strunk and White.
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/econ_articles/reviews/williams.html
On the back cover of the book itself, one blurb author suggests
readers get them both and keep them side by side.
There is also a college textbook edition.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/7255.ctl
Yours,
Ken
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Gavin Melles wrote:
> Joseph Williams Style
> this little text judiciously used focuses on linguistics
>constructions, including the passive, the use of metadiscourse, and
>other linguistic and rhetorical devices and their function in
>coherent and clear discourse.
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