The Elements of Style: The Classic American English Writing Style Guide

The Elements of Style: The Classic American English Writing Style Guide
ISBN-10
172707422X
ISBN-13
9781727074222
Series
The Elements of Style
Pages
56
Language
English
Published
2018-09-06
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Authors
William Strunk, E. B. White

Description

The Elements of Style ("Strunk & White") is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the most influential and best-known prescriptive treatments of English grammar and usage in the United States. This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. In accordance with this plan it lays down three rules for the use of the comma, instead of a score or more, and one for the use of the semicolon, in the belief that these four rules provide for all the internal punctuation that is required by nineteen sentences out of twenty. Similarly, it gives in Chapter III only those principles of the paragraph and the sentence which are of the widest application. The book thus covers only a small portion of the field of English style. The experience of its writer has been that once past the essentials, students profit most by individual instruction based on the problems of their own work, and that each instructor has his own body of theory, which he may prefer to that offered by any textbook.

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