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    <![CDATA[The Elements of Style]]>
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    <![CDATA[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.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[William Strunk Jr.]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1979</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The gold standard. No more need be said than to quote Mr. Strunk's thoughts under the headline &quot;Omit Needless Words&quot;:<br/><br/>&quot;Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing shoul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7706597">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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