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The Elements of Style 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 forty-nine "words and expressions commonly misused", and a list of fifty-seven "words often misspelled". In 2011, Time magazine listed the writing style-guide as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923. Cornell University professor of English William Strunk, Jr., wrote The Elements of Style in 1918, and privately published it in 1919, for in-house use at the university. In The Elements of Style (1918), as a professor of English, William Strunk concentrated on specific questions of usage and the cultivation of good writing with the recommendation "Make every word tell"; hence, the 17th principle of composition is the simple instruction: "Omit needless words."

This, the original little book, has been incredibly popular since it was first written back in 1918. William Strunk, Jr., a professor at Cornell, released it in a privately printed edition in 1919 "to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention...on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated." A year later, it saw its first major publication. This short guide to writing is as useful today as it was when it was first released. Everyone should own a copy.

The Elements of Style, English Writing Style Guide, Brand New Complete Edition, A Teacher Resource Manual, The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White, 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 forty-nine "words and expressions commonly misused", and a list of fifty-seven "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. Cornell University English professor William Strunk, Jr., wrote The Elements of Style in 1918, and privately published it in 1919, for in-house use at the university. Later, for publication, he and editor Edward A. Tenney revised it as The Elements and Practice of Composition (1935). In 1957, at The New Yorker, the style guide reached the attention of E. B. White, who had studied writing under Strunk in 1919, but had since forgotten "the little book" that he described as a "forty-three-page summation of the case for cleanliness, accuracy, and brevity in the use of English." Weeks later, White wrote a feature story about Strunk's devotion to lucid English prose.

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in Chapters II and III) on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. In accordance with this plan it lays down three rules for the use of the comma, instead of a score or more, and one for the use of the semicolon, in the belief that these four rules provide for all the internal punctuation that is required by nineteen sentences out of twenty. Similarly, it gives in Chapter III only those principles of the paragraph and the sentence which are of the widest application. The book thus covers only a small portion of the field of English style. The experience of its writer has been that once past the essentials, students profit most by individual instruction based on the problems of their own work, and that each instructor has his own body of theory, which he may prefer to that offered by any textbook.

" 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.