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by William Strunk Jr.
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Marvin's Bookish Blog
Marvin's Bookish Blog rated it 15 years ago
Read it. Know it. Live it.
BiblioSquirrell
BiblioSquirrell rated it 26 years ago
If there is one book that all who write should own, this is it.My favorite rule?"Omit needless words!"
Amadan na Briona
Amadan na Briona rated it 28 years ago
It is very good for what it does, which is advise on how to write clearly and concisely. But generations of writers have completely misunderstood its purpose and used it as a Bible of Good Writing. It's not. Linguist Geoffrey Pullum has famously gone on something of a crusade against The Elements of...
MAS
MAS rated it 31 years ago
No writer, serious about about his or her work, can live without it.
SJane
SJane rated it 42 years ago
Certainly worthwhile, but not all it's hyped up to be.
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 48 years ago
At this point I think I've not so much read this book as absorbed it by osmosis.
futurista
futurista rated it 56 years ago
I don't agree with all Mr. Strunk's grammar, punctuation, and word usage rules. Much can change in a language between 1919 and 2008. Many of the nearly 100-year-old pet peeves of Mr. Strunk don't sound wrong to our modern ears. Thusly, I shall will use "like" as much as I want. I will also never wri...
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