Economical writing : thirty-five rules for clear and persuasive prose / Deirdre Nansen McCloskey ; with an appendix by Stephen T. Ziliak
- Author:
- McCloskey, Deirdre N.
- Published:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 153 pages ; 22 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Ziliak, Stephen Thomas, 1963-
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Writing Is a Trade -- 2.Writing Is Thinking -- 3.Rules Can Help, but Bad Rules Hurt -- 4.Be Thou Clear, but Seek Joy, Too -- 5.The Rules Are Factual Rather Than Logical -- 6.Classical Rhetoric Guides Even the Economical Writer -- 7.Fluency Can Be Achieved by Grit -- 8.Write Early Rather Than Late -- 9.You Will Need Tools -- 10.Keep Your Spirits Up, Forge Ahead -- 11.Speak to an Audience of Human Beings -- 12.Avoid Boilerplate -- 13.Control Your Tone -- 14.A Paragraph Should Have a Point -- 15.Make Tables, Graphs, Displayed Equations, and Labels on Images Readable by Themselves -- 16.Footnotes and Other "Scholarly" Tics Are Pedantic -- 17.Make Your Writing Cohere -- 18.Use Your Ear -- 19.Write in Complete Sentences -- 20.Avoid Elegant Variation -- 21.Watch How Each Word Connects with Others -- 22.Watch Punctuation -- 23.The Order Around Switch Until It Good Sounds -- 24.Read, Out Loud -- 25.Use Verbs, Active Ones -- 26.Avoid Words That Bad Writers Love -- 27.Be Concrete -- 28.Be Plain -- 29.Avoid Cheap Typographical Tricks -- 30.Avoid This, That, These, Those -- 31.Above All, Look at Your Words -- 32.Use Standard Forms in Letters -- 33.Treat Speaking in Public as a Performance -- 34.Advice for Nonnative English Speakers -- 35.If You Didn't Stop Reading, Join the Flow.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780226448077 paperback alkaline paper
022644807X paperback alkaline paper - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Endowment Note:
- Textbook and Educational Resource Endowment
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