style toward clarity and grace

style toward clarity and grace

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1.2022-06-05阅读Style Toward Clarity and grace一书的第一印象

2022-06-05阅读Style Toward Clarity and grace一书的第一印象

       Style Toward Clarity and grace ? ------by Joseph M. Williams

        作者开篇的声明可以说非常有野心：1.?the standard books on style don't go much beyond high mindedness. They are all for accuracy, brevity, clarity, and so forth, but beyond offering good and bad examples, none of them explains how to achieve those ends . （看来作者有信心教会读者在写作中如何做到准确，简洁，清晰） 2.?the standard books gesture toward audiences, but none of them explains in detail how a writer must anticipate what readers look for as they make their way through complex, usually unfamiliar material. （作者特别关注如何写作本身就比较复杂的主题，比如各种专业知识）3.?the standard books seem wholly innocent of recent work done in the cognitive sciences. （作者参考了最新的认知科学的研究，用于指导如何使写作变得更加准确易懂）

        本书的目标包括：1.?to explain how writers can improve the style and the structure of their reports, analyses, articles, memoranda, proposals, monographs, books;? to show how a writer quickly and efficiently transforms a rough first draft into a version crafted for the reader . 2.?So we explain how bad?writing results from different causes and how writers can diagnose different problems and overcome them. 3.?It is important for everyone?to understand not only its social origins but its social?consequences:?if you are unable to understand an article or monograph, it is not necessarily because you are incompetent, but because its author couldn't write clearly. That liberation is a valuable experience.

        关于本书的读法，作者的建议是：1.?You should understand that this book is not an easy afternoon read;（这不是一本轻松的下午消遣读物） 2.?We suggest you read this book a short section at a time, then look at your own writing or the writing of others （建议每读一小节就停下来，根据该小节的内容，检视一下自己或他人的写作）:?If you think the writing is unclear in the ways we describe, revise it using the principle in question. If you think it is clear, revise it by reversing the principles and make the passage worse; 3.?Under no circumstances try to devour this book in a sitting. （绝不要一口气狼吞虎咽地读完全书）

        作者善意地提醒：1.?Do not take what we offer here as draconian rules of composition, but rather as diagnostic principles of interpretation.（本书提供的不是教条行的规则，而是一些诊断性的原则，可以启发作者从读者的角度去理解自己写作的内容） 2.?We are our own worst editors because we know too much about our subject to experience vicariously how a reader largely innocent of our knowledge will read. （作者通常无法有效扮演自己的编辑）

        作者的前沿，让我对本书充满了期待，让我们接下来拭目以待吧。

       好了，今天关于“style toward clarity and grace”的话题就讲到这里了。希望大家能够通过我的介绍对“style toward clarity and grace”有更全面、深入的认识，并且能够在今后的实践中更好地运用所学知识。