false <![CDATA[The Elements of Style (Fourth Edition)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168447985m/33514.jpg 33514 38 Composition teachers throughout the English-speaking world have been pushing this book on their students since it was first published in 1957. Co-author White later revised it, and it remains the most compact and lucid handbook we have for matters of basic principles of composition, grammar, word usage and misusage, and writing style. 35832 1920 The Elements of Style (Fourth Edition) total:4911|5:2577|4:1460|3:690|2:143|1:41| 4911 21122 6634 629 4 5 false false Thu Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 17:24:20 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 25 18:12:34 -0700 2008 1
I like grammar books.

Now, I don't usually like the ranting of old, white men who clearly don't have better things to do with their time. Usually, I want to hurl their books about. Usually, I'm all about the clever undermining of the status quo. But I li...more...]]> 0 7 false false Mon May 21 14:06:45 -0700 2007 Mon May 21 14:10:14 -0700 2007
1. Propping up a short table leg

2. Lining a bird cage

3. Building a fire

4. Using as a coaster for cold drinks



I devoted some of my grammar thesis to criticizing this book, and it was tim...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 16:00:31 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 16:03:22 -0700 2009 neverending more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1979 Sun Oct 14 10:27:32 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 14 10:32:13 -0700 2007
"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing shoul...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 03 11:47:02 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 12:12:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Jun 25 02:55:58 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 29 03:57:47 -0800 2008 Wed Jun 25 02:55:58 -0700 2008 I highly recommend this edition with illustrations by Maira Kalman. It has been, according to Roger Angell who writes the forward, "modestly" updated from the original, published in the WW 1 era.
Get this book. Give th...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Aug 31 18:34:12 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 08:55:10 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 18:34:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 13 10:07:17 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 07 12:14:34 -0800 2009 Charlotte's Web, one of Strunk's students) worked independently to produce this excellent work: ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 22:24:11 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 21:41:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 03 04:56:09 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 15 20:20:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Mar 15 09:38:32 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 09:42:49 -0700 2009
It's a great book for writers. Let's face it, we all write emails, so we can all use it.

Here are examples of the great reminders I got from the book -

1) use active voice
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Elements of Style contains the most valuable advice for any writer: “Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Apr 29 05:18:44 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 05:22:33 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Dec 15 15:15:37 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 15:27:40 -0800 2008
I actually owned this book back in college, but I only used it as a reference; I didn't read it cover to cover. I now wish I had. At 85 pages, it is one of the short...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 02 17:58:36 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 17:58:58 -0800 2009
What is most amazing is how it consolidates a wealth of information into accessible, bite-size chapters that are easy to search on and then easy to comprehend.

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