The Elements of Style
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (754 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073P6CY9N |
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| Number of Pages | : | 258 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"a marvellous and timeless little book Here, succinctly, elegantly and without fuss are the essentials of writing clear, correct English." John Clare, "The Telegraph"
The Elements of Style is an American English writing style guide. 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.. It is one of the most influential and best-known prescriptive treatments of English grammar and usage in the United States
Jon said A Good Desk Reference if/when it might be needed. If you paid attention in (and remember) high school English composition, don't pay more than a buck for this. But I should qualify that I'm a senior citizen with two bright kids who went through school in the late 1980s, and (I dare say) they weren't taught nearly as well as I was back in the '60s and early '70s. So take this review with a grain of salt.I'm writing this review for the free Kindle version with tan and dark red cover (https://amazon.com/dp/B005IT0V8O/ref=cm_cr_ryp_prd_ttl_sol_0). This Kindle version has click. The only writing book my son ever needed Nearly one hundred years old, this book was originally written by William Strunk, who was E.B White's former professor. E. B. White later wrote the last part of this mini-manual. As you may recall, White was the author of the classic, Stuart Little. To study this book is to learn from the masters. When I was homeschooling my oldest son during his early high school years, this was the only writing book that we used. The only other instruction I gave him was to correct the mistakes on the novels he was writing at the time. Wh. "An Indispensable Guide to Correct Grammar Usage" according to terrylynn. If you are like me and you write a lot, there is always going to come a time when you need to look up something to do with correct grammar usage. This little book literally it's small and thin has all the answers for those pesky questions like when is it correct to use a colon versus a semi colon or a comma. Even people who make their living writing/correcting English turn to this indispensable little book. I would send it off with every college student if I could and make it mandatory for high school seniors. For anyone wh