What would you recommend learning for the best style of writing?

Question

Books

Subject.
You can recommend both a book and some kind of service.
It is required to improve the written Russian language to the level of "I can express my thoughts clearly for any person".

Answer 1

hm. an interesting (non-standard) thought came to mind: try to take a math problem (for class, for example, 9) and write its solution in such detail that a fifth grader can understand (that is, you will have to prove all auxiliary statements). It is better to take problems in geometry. It turns out that you will learn concisely, to the point and consistently (in mathematics, nothing superfluous is mentioned in the proof, and all the facts will be in order) to express your ideas, to argue the statement. the advice will suit you if you have a mathematical minimum, of course. tasks and reference here or here

Answer 2

Read more books. Also books on rhetoric. Here is my summary of one of these books, without water:
Rhetoric
1. Read aloud short newspaper articles and immediately retell their content in your own words.
2. Pronounce each word slowly (inhale through the nose), read more words in 1 breath.
2.1. Gymnastics - pronounce the sound combinations “lalelilolu”, “tatetitotu. Read the letters o and a in words, etc. (without solid.)
3. Develop explanations of some subject, words of definition. For example: A globe is a rotating hollow ball painted in different colors; using degrees of latitude gives an idea of ​​the earth's surface.
4. Retell stories. 5. Synopsis of articles (keywords), reproduction in his own words (paraphrasing). • We shorten the article (compressed down to 1 sentence!). • We expand the article by adding our own opinion.
6 Report. As an exercise for business messages, a topic was chosen, for which the main material is statistical data. We borrowed this information from the UN yearbook, according to which the annual population growth in the period 1958-1963. in various regions of the world was:
Central America 2.9% South America 2.8% Europe 0.9%
Germany 1.3%
Asia 2.3% Oceania 2.2% USA 1.7%
Africa 2.0% USSR 1.7%
Exercise. Prepare a report based on the data: "World Population Explosion in the 60s."1. Please see the report first. 2. Develop a summary of the keywords and state the message. 3. After that, please read the following lines and see if they contain any recommendations that could lead to an improvement in the message. It is necessary to convincingly show the audience the significance and various aspects of population growth. Some conclusions from the given figures: • A small discovery: the largest percentage of population growth is not in Asia and Africa, but in Central and South America. • True, the consequences of growth are most pronounced in populous Asia. • Latin America, Asia, Africa are far removed from Europe, there is a growth of 3 times more. • The superpowers of the USA and the USSR are on the same level. • At present, growth in Europe ,
Europe will soon be on the brink. Problems: birth control, food shortages, industrialization, powerful new factors influencing population growth. (Here I have shown only a few. Now we will try to extract information by analyzing the structure of the population, the causes of various growth, etc., in order to more thoroughly develop the complex of problems of the topic “Population growth”. But we will be satisfied with the material presented, because we are in no way At least we do not strive to reflect the current situation, our task is to provide useful material for exercises.).
7. It is more effective to memorize for 2 days for an hour a day than for 2 hours on one day, because during the break between classes, the subconscious mind continues to consolidate the material in memory.
8. Humor and jokes are especially needed when difficult passages of speech are already behind.
9. Introduction and the main part of the report should answer the following four questions: Introduction: 1. Why am I talking?
Main part: 1. What is the status quo (“What was, what is?”) 2. What should be instead? 3. How can the existing situation be changed? Conclusion: contains an incentive to act: to follow the path that the speaker has learned about, and in this way change the existing situation. The conclusion contains an overview, a culmination, an end.
Rhetorical means Influence Example
1. Example, detail, comparison Everything abstract is visualized with the help of well-aimed comparisons and examples, as well as images and short stories included in speech. Post that huge South Africa Congo
has only 1.1 million inhabitants, clearly with the help
of comparison: "The Congo is ten times larger than West Germany, and the number of inhabitants is only 1/4 of the West German population"
The English politician Attlee compared the elections in the East with "leaps in which only one horse participates. The winner is predetermined."
3. Image (metaphor), figurative series Imagery the minister scored in his own net, the Law on State Budget Provision was a crutch that helped to overcome the difficulties of only one year
4. Narratio (narratio)
5. Repetition
Repetition is a way of persuasion, with a pronounced emotion. if we do not win, we must win, we will certainly win! “I rebuked my opponent once, I rebuked him a second time. “The essence of the state is not in the government, the essence of the state is not in the opposition. The essence of the state is the government and the opposition.
6. Clarification I asked Mr. Meyer to look for business papers; no, I not only asked him: I strongly recommended him, I demanded that he finally bring business papers

Answer 3

There is a book: Lee LeFever - The Art of Explaining , though I haven’t read it myself, I can’t vouch.
You can also pay attention to textbooks on rhetoric, which in fact is not only the art of persuasion, but also of explanation. Take metaphors for example: they help you understand something by looking at it as something else. The same Dr. House very often explains his complex ideas to "stupid" colleagues with the help of metaphors.

Answer 4

I believe that both Damir Rysaev and Dmitry are both right. I see the following:
programmers are people who have more developed logical thinking than other categories of specialists, so it is always interesting to get an answer to a question from a programmer, even if it involves the use of jurisprudence when dividing property with a wife or breeding herbs of the psacaceae family in the taiga. zone. In view of this, it is possible to create a separate section on toster.ru with questions that are not directly related to the IT field, but somehow indirectly affect it, and call it something like "Programmer's View".

Answer 5

The problem may not be where you are looking for it. Let's say I can't write something completely new (my own) for an unfamiliar audience without saying it. That is, people who can be loaded and get a response are stupidly needed. Without this, the letters seem insignificant and are sent to drafts or even to the trash. I see that it is written badly, but how to write well - I can not understand.
It is well known that the best way to understand something is to explain it to someone else. The flow of information is an order of magnitude higher in voice / face-to-face, so you can make several passes if the interlocutors can stand it. And when the thought is settled in the head, the written presentation can be approached as a development: draw up a plan, write sketches. There is no reuse of code in texts - for programmers this can be an obstacle. There's nothing you can do about it, you have to get used to it and rebuild your thinking.
And the last tip. To be ready to explain your thoughts to others, you need to rid your speech (both oral and written) of unjustified borrowings and slang as much as possible. Read good translations, memorize terms, don't follow the line of least resistance.

Answer 6

And the same but to improve English?

Answer 7

It can also help you get rid of the water. In most cases, a significant part of the text can be discarded without depriving it of its meaning. This is scary to do, because. it may seem that people think that you have nothing to say. But this fear must be fought (if you do not work in a bureaucracy, this approach is counterproductive there).
Quote from the classic on the topic:

- As you can see, gentlemen, almost ninety percent of the text of the agreement did not lend itself to analysis due to complete meaninglessness. And what is left can be interpreted as follows:
"Anacreon's obligations to the Empire - NO!"
"The power of the Empire over Anacreon is NO!"

Answer 8

My mother is a journalist, once upon a time she was bothered by a similar question. He said, remember son: if you really have something to say to people, then you will be understood in any way.
PS: it's good to ask for such books on the Russian language forums

Answer 9

Please read the rules of the Toaster and stop asking questions that are not related to the subject of the resource.

Answer 10

I love the classics. The main thing is more.

Answer 11

I agree, the main thing is to read a lot, not necessarily one classic, but you should refrain from reading a la Dontsova.

Answer 12

I can’t tell you from books, but: Gustav Vodichka’s
writing skills training vodichka.com.ua
Maxim Ilyakhov has a lot of materials in the public domain maximilyahov.ru , for example, the video “Simple Rules for Strong Text” www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQEtYz56okg or free mailing of glvrd.ru editor-in-chief