A way with words style in the age of artificial intelligence
"A Way with Words helps readers learn the essentials of writing. Rather than lecturing about when to use who or whom, this book focuses on writing clear, concise, and lively prose: eliminating wordiness, using active verbs, avoiding run-on sentences. John Marsh applies his experience grading over 5,...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Character and clarity ; Voice ; Why bother? ; Not showing but learning ; Style is not...
- A difficult dilemma : on concision
- Passive aggressive : on the active and passive voice
- Lights, camera, action verbs!
- Lost connections : modifiers, parallelism, transitions, and vague pronouns
- Better late than never : on clichés
- The art of joinery : fragments, run-on sentences, and the Oxford comma
- The long and short of it : on sentence variety
- Pretentious diction : on the sesquipedalian
- Conventions
- Inclusion
- Putting it all together : quizzes
- Answers to exercises
- Answers to quizzes.
