Other editions of book The Elements of Style

" This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. " William Strunk, Jr. The Elements of Style, by W. Strunk!!The classic style manual used by the greatest!!The Elements of Style also known as "the little book" by fellow cornell students is the product of a disciplined mind forged through years of studying rhetoric, form and logic.It has helped generation after generation of writer to improve their style of writing.A. B. White described it as a "case for cleanliness, accuracy, and brevity in the use of English.""There is little or no detectable bullshit in that book" … "every aspiring writer should read it"Stephen King, On writing, 2000." ... distinguished by brevity, clarity, and prickly good sense." The New Yorker " …if you haven't seen it yet, it's never too late to get your copy of "The Elements of Style"... one of the best books on the fundamentals of writing..." The Boston Sunday Globe "Buy it, study it, enjoy it. It's as timeless as a book can be in our age of volubility."Charles Poore, The New York Times, 1959. ContentI. INTRODUCTORYII. ELEMENTARY RULES OF USAGEIII. ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITIONIV. A FEW MATTERS OF FORMV. WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS COMMONLY MISUSEDVI. SPELLINGVII. EXERCISES ON CHAPTERS II AND III

This collection contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable.The Elements of Style is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the most influential and best-known prescriptive treatments of English grammar and usage in the United States. It originally detailed eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, and "a few matters of form" as well as a list of commonly misused words and expressions. Updated editions of the paperback book are often required reading for American high school and college composition classes.

The Elements of Style is a prescriptive American English writing style guide in numerous editions. The original was composed by William Strunk Jr., in 1918, and published by Harcourt, in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage", ten "elementary principles of composition", "a few matters of form", a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused", and a list of 57 "words often misspelled". E. B. White greatly enlarged and revised the book for publication by Macmillan in 1959. That was the first edition of the so-called "Strunk & White", which Time named in 2011 as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923

The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. is a prescriptive American English writing style guide comprising eight "elementary rules of usage", ten "elementary principles of composition", "a few matters of form", a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused", and a list of 57 "words often misspelled". In 2011, Time magazine listed The Elements of Style as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923.