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Economical Writing, Third Edition: Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose de Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Economical Writing, Third Edition: Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing

Autor Deirdre Nansen McCloskey Apendix de Stephen T. Ziliak
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 mai 2019

După parcurgerea acestui ghid practic, orice autor de texte academice sau profesionale va putea să transforme jargonul arid în argumente persuasive și proză cristalină. Observăm că Economical Writing, Third Edition nu este doar un manual de stil, ci un manifest împotriva pedanteriei care sufocă adesea științele economice. Deirdre Nansen McCloskey demonstrează că scrisul de calitate nu este un talent înnăscut, ci rezultatul unei intuiții educate și al unui proces riguros de revizuire.

Structura cărții este extrem de eficientă: cele 35 de reguli punctează exact acolo unde scriitorii tind să devieze, de la utilizarea excesivă a notelor de subsol până la construcția frazelor. Față de abordările sale mai ample din lucrări precum Bettering Humanomics sau celebra trilogie care începe cu The Bourgeois Virtues, unde McCloskey explorează fundamentele morale și istorice ale economiei, aici ea se concentrează strict pe instrumentarul tehnic al comunicării. Tonul este revigorant, spiritual și provocator, evitând rigiditatea manualelor clasice.

Considerăm această lucrare o alternativă excelentă la Writing with Style de Lane Greene pentru nivelul avansat de scriere academică. În timp ce Lane Greene se concentrează pe claritatea generală inspirată de standardele publicației The Economist, McCloskey oferă o perspectivă specifică asupra modului în care datele și argumentele complexe pot fi „îmblânzite” fără a pierde din rigoarea științifică. Este, de asemenea, un companion ideal pentru If You're So Smart, unde autoarea analizează retorica teoriei economice, oferind aici soluția practică pentru acele probleme de expresie.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226448077
ISBN-10: 022644807X
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: 3 halftones
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:Third Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing

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Despre autor

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey este profesor emerit la University of Illinois din Chicago și una dintre cele mai influente voci în economia contemporană și istoria economică. Cunoscută pentru vasta sa erudiție, ea a scris peste douăzeci de cărți, inclusiv monumentala trilogie despre era burgheză. Lucrările sale, precum Why Liberalism Works sau autobiografia Crossing, reflectă o preocupare constantă pentru libertatea umană și pentru modul în care limbajul și ideile modelează lumea materială. Stilul său inconfundabil îmbină rigoarea matematică cu o sensibilitate literară rară în științele sociale.

Notă biografică

Deirdre N. McCloskey is distinguished professor of economics, history, English, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Among her many books are The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, Bourgeois Equality, Crossing: A Memoir; The Secret Sins of Economics, and If You’re So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
 

Recenzii

"McCloskey tells economists to say what they have to say clearly and economically, and then shows them how. Students can learn to write so that the professor will know what they mean and, more important, professors can learn to write so that the rest of the world will know what they mean."

"The book delights because it demonstrates—clearly, persuasively, enjoyably—the importance of paying attention to rules and rhythms in one’s writing. . . . Style guides that succeed in encouraging writers to rethink approaches, to try something new, or to disrupt staid routines are style guides we need. Writers should check out Economical Writing, and editors should recommend it. Your future readers will be thankful."

"You don’t have to be an economist to benefit from the book, but it will certainly help many economists – we are not famed for clarity and elegance of expression. . . . [McCloskey] is always a model of clarity. . . . Highly recommended for all who write as part of their work or for pleasure. Pretty much everybody?"

"This slim volume should be required reading for all professionals and students, and its audience need not be limited to economists. . . . McCloskey has written a provocative book that has led me to re-think my own approach to writing. If more economists were to spend the short time necessary to read this book, both the writing and the reading of economics might become a more pleasurable experience."

"If you want to be read (and who doesn't) and be remembered (better yet), Economical Writing is for you. This entertaining volume will teach you how to write meaningful and joyful economics. A dose of McCloskey banishes the dismal from the 'dismal science.' McCloskey is the Strunk and White of economics, and Economical Writing should be required reading for all economists."

"McCloskey has written the best short guide to academic prose in the language. Is this language English and not the Academic Official Style? Does McCloskey write with a sense that is also a sense of humor? All true. Buy and believe."

"This slim book is packed with practical, necessary information, delivered succinctly and with just enough humor to make the reader forget it’s good for them."

Descriere

Economics is not a field that is known for good writing. Charts, yes. Sparkling prose, no.
 
Except, that is, when it comes to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Her conversational and witty yet always clear style is a hallmark of her classic works of economic history, enlivening the dismal science and engaging readers well beyond the discipline. And now she’s here to share the secrets of how it’s done.
 
Economical Writing is itself economical: a collection of thirty-five pithy rules for making your writing clear, concise, and effective. Proceeding from big-picture ideas to concrete strategies for improvement at the level of the paragraph, sentence, or word, McCloskey shows us that good writing, after all, is not just a matter of taste—it’s a product of adept intuition and a rigorous revision process. Debunking stale rules, warning us that “footnotes are nests for pedants,” and offering an arsenal of readily applicable tools and methods, she shows writers of all levels of experience how to rethink the way they approach their work, and gives them the knowledge to turn mediocre prose into magic.
 
At once efficient and digestible, hilarious and provocative, Economical Writing lives up to its promise. With McCloskey as our guide, it’s impossible not to see how any piece of writing—on economics or any other subject—can be a pleasure to read.