How to write clearly
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Here are the references for my bachelor course How to write clearly.
Highly recommended
- Joseph M. Williams, Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing, 1990)
中文版：《风格：写作的清晰与优雅》（北京大学出版社，2020） - Stven Pinker, The sense of style (Penguin Books, 2014)
中文版：史蒂芬·平克，《风格感觉：21世纪写作指南》（机械工业出版社，2018） - William Zinsser, On Writing Well
- 刘军强，《写作是门手艺》（广西师范大学出版社，2020）
- 易莉，《学术写作原来是这样：语言、逻辑和结构的全面提升》（机械工业出版社，2020）
- Helen Sword, Stylish Academic Writing (Harvard University Press, 2012)
- Robert Graves; Alan Hodge; Patricia T. O’Conner, The Reader Over Your Shoulder (Rosetta Books, 1943)
Perhaps too many rules to remember
- William Strunk, E. B. White, The Elements of Style (Longman, 1999)
- Gary Provost, 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing (Signet, 1985)
- Roy Peter Clark, Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer-Little (Brown and Company, 2008)
Never read it…but do consult it whenever necessary
- The Chicago Manual of Style
- Diana Hacker, Nancy Sommers, A Writer’s Reference (Bedford_St. Martin’s, 2010)
- Seth Lindstromberg, English Prepositions Explained
- Steve Hart, English Exposed: Common Mistakes Made by Chinese Speakers (Hong Kong University Press, 2017)