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The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White - The Classic Writing Style Guide - 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 (in Chapters II and…
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1 author picked The Elements of Style as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is now more than a century old and has sold countless millions in numerous editions.
In my book about writing books I argue that this brief volume is not one book at all, but two books. Each part offers a different, some might say a contradictory view of what we mean when we talk about a writer’s “style.”
The original handbook was written by William Strunk Jr., a professor at Cornell, in 1918. E.B. White was one of his students. Strunk preached consistency in grammar, usage, brevity, and rhetorical techniques. If you wanted to be a good writer,…
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