You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition.
Offers advice on improving writing skills and promoting a style marked by simplicity, orderliness, and sincerity.
The Elements of Style is a prescriptive American English writing style guide comprising eight "elementary rules of usage", ten "elementary principles of composition", "a few matters of form", a list...
This part of the book is concerned with attitudes in writing, with Mr. White's personal list of "do's" and "don'ts" and with style as the mark of the writer." --dust jacket.
This special edition contains two classic works. It gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.
In 1957, at The New Yorker, the style guide reached the attention of E.B. White, who had studied writing under Strunk in 1919, but had since forgotten "the little book" that he described as a "forty-three-page summation of the case for ...
That was the first edition of the so-called Strunk & White, which Time named in 2011 as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923.
" The book was also listed as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923 by Time in its 2011 list.
It includes: 8 rules of usage 10 principles of composition List of commonly misused words and expressions and a few matters of formIn addition, this new updated edition includes chapters on: Texting Style Emailing StyleThis elegantly ...
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When young writers take up their pencils, they need two things: imagination and a copy of William Strunk, Jr's classic guide, The Elements of Style.
This updated 2018 Classic Edition contains the original version of William Strunk's The Elements of Style, plus a variety of enhancements that make this book even more useful.
First published in 1918, William Strunk Jr.'s The Elements of Style is a guide to writing in American English.
In this 1918 original edition, Strunk concentrates on specific questions of usage, the cultivation of good writing, and avoiding overwriting by making "every word tell.
The fourth edition of the timeless composition guide, including an introduction by E. B. White and a foreword by Roger Angell.
You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition.
Updated editions of the paperback book are often required reading for American high school and college composition classes.
Several edits have been made for readability, including font, text size, spacing, and alignment changes. However, while our goal was to enhance the ease at which this book can be read, we did not alter or change the historic text.