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Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1: GOOD WRITING
Chapter 2: A WINDOW ONTO THE
WORLD
Chapter 3: THE CURSE OF
KNOWLEDGE
Chapter 4: THE WEB, THE TREE, AND THE
STRING
Chapter 5: ARCS OF
COHERENCE
Chapter 6: TELLING RIGHT FROM
WRONG
Notes
Glossary
References
Acknowledgments
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004
To Susan Pinker and Robert
Pinkerwho have a way with words
Prologue
I love style manuals. Ever since I was
assigned Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style in an introductory
psychology course, the writing guide has been among my favorite literary genres.
It’s not just that I welcome advice on the lifelong challenge of perfecting
the craft of writing. It’s also that credible guidance on writing must itself
be well written, and the best of the manuals are paragons of their own advice.
William Strunk’s course notes on writing, which his student E. B. White turned
into their famous little book, was studded with gems of self-exemplification such as
“Write with nouns and verbs,” “Put the emphatic words of a
sentence at the end,” and best of all, his prime directive, “Omit
needless words.” Many eminent stylists have applied their gifts to explaining
the art, including Kingsley Amis, Jacques Barzun, Ambrose Bierce, Bill Bryson,
Robert Graves, Tracy Kidder, Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, F. L. Lucas, George
Orwell, William Safire, and of course White himself, the beloved author of
Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little. Here is the great
essayist reminiscing about his teacher:
In the days when I was sitting in
his class, he omitted so many needless words, and omitted them so forcibly and
with such eagerness an ............

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