Richard's review
The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr.
Richard's review
rating:
bookshelves: non-fiction
recommended for: anyone who would like to hone their writing skills
status: Read in January, 2006
rating:
bookshelves: non-fiction
recommended for: anyone who would like to hone their writing skills
status: Read in January, 2006
The most important thing that I learnt from this book is that whatever I write, I could do so in half the words, with double the impact.
So, here's the rub. I'm verbose. I love long words and even longer sentences (back when word processors started to include things like readability indexes and grammar checkers, the one thing they always said was 'your sentences are too long'!). And, thanks to this book, now I know why!
This book is probably most useful to those who take a journalistic bent to their writing, but it can also help people like me who need to knock the corners off their writing.
So, here's the rub. I'm verbose. I love long words and even longer sentences (back when word processors started to include things like readability indexes and grammar checkers, the one thing they always said was 'your sentences are too long'!). And, thanks to this book, now I know why!
This book is probably most useful to those who take a journalistic bent to their writing, but it can also help people like me who need to knock the corners off their writing.
