Elements of Style: A Classic Guide to Clear English Writing - Softcover

Strunk Jr, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604597828 ISBN 13: 9781604597820

Publisher: SMK Books, 2009

Synopsis

The Elements of Style (1918), by William Strunk, Jr., and E..B. White, is an American English writing style guide. It is the best-known, most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading and usage in U.S. high school and university composition classes. This edition of The Elements of Style details eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, "a few matters of form", and a list of commonly misused words and expressions.

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About the Author

William Strunk Jr. was an American professor of English at Cornell University and the original author of The Elements of Style. Written for his students and first privately circulated in the late 1910s, Strunk's compact manual set out a forceful approach to English prose based on clarity, brevity, grammatical control, and disciplined revision. His most famous instruction, "omit needless words," became one of the best-known pieces of writing advice in American education.Strunk's influence reached far beyond his classroom after his former student E. B. White helped bring the manual to a much wider public in the 1959 Strunk and White edition. The book's authority has been debated, praised, criticized, imitated, and assigned for decades, but its place in the history of American writing instruction is secure. Strunk remains associated with the ideal of clean, direct prose: writing that avoids clutter, chooses concrete language, and treats style as a matter of order, emphasis, and respect for the reader.

Edition details

• Publisher: SMK Books
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604597828
• ISBN 13: 9781604597820
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72