The Elements of Style
A book that will help any writer become a better writer.
A book that will help any writer become a better writer.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780024181909 (0024181900)
Publish date: January 1st 1979
Publisher: Macmillan
Pages no: 85
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Academic,
School,
Reference,
Humanities,
Language,
Teaching,
Self Help,
Education,
How To
This manual alone won't make you a bestselling author. In fact, certain divine writers break every rule in the book. (I'm talking about Heimito von Doderer.) But The Elements of Style can help you find your own. Highly recommendable for students and mediocre writers.
I did not like this book. It is pretty much entirely one man's opinion on how one should write. I agreed with him here and there, but for the most part, he kind of got on my nerves. I liked the chapter by White better than those by Strunk. White doesn't sound so old and crotchety. This would be fine...
Every writer should read this. It's short and sweet, but you'll still get something out of it in addition to the joy of checking it off of your To Read list.
Every writer should read this. It's short and sweet, but you'll still get something out of it in addition to the joy of checking it off of your To Read list.
Too short, too bloodless, too focused on being brief, explicit and direct, mostly by demanding construction of sentences using active voice. A friend with a PH.D, forced by the demands of academic publishing to write in nothing but passive voice, developed a maddening frustration, after being taught...
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