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My professor told me that this book is a must-read and will help us go down to the same path he did. avoid overstatement2. White followsuit the clear-cut, lucid, easy-to-read guidlines and transcended the pocket book into a writing bible that's sold millions of copies to this day. use spelling check5. This awesome book was originally written by Willim Strunk Jr, in the hope of helping his students to write well in his class. To his great surprise, one of his students, E.B. I started to get down to the book based on personal recommendation. there are no infallible, definite guidelines to abide by4.
the use of fancy words or trying to be flashy, showy doesn't make you smarter8. familiarity with the use of language will help us form our own style, so just follow the flow3. write in a coherent, consistent mannerI had a great time digesting the wisdom within the book with pleasure and euphoria. Classic misused phrases include: per se, -wise, in terms of, interestingly, the fact that to name a few.He also gave tips on properly using punctuations and where to watch out for. I wanna break the norm that scientists can't write well. avoid foreign language and colloquial expression6.
The author provided lucid dos and donts , each with the correct and flawed demonstration. In the last chapter, he got straight to the point to provide tips for emerging writers and journalists: 1. dont overexplain things7. I hope ya'll can find it helpful, and one day can all write like Strunk and White.
In fact, both my adult children bought copies for themselves. I was thinking about starting an editing business out of my home, so I purchased this with that in mind. Well, I never did get around to editing, but I still read and re-read this book -- many times. One was in college at the time, the other just enjoyed the book enough to want a copy for herself.This is a great book that would make a fantastic gift for a high-schooler, or someone in college, as well as the linguist in your life.My copy is now dogeared, and very much worn. It is time I bought another copy for myself.
I bought this book as one of the textbooks for a class. It is a pocket size book, and as an international graduate student I find it very useful, specially because English is not my mother language and I have to write many papers for different classes and scientific articles.
With all of the great reviews posted about The Elements of Style, it is a difficult to add anything that hasn't been said before. The Elements of a Style is a great book that will help improve your writing - regardless of how well you write at present. This book is one that writers will want to keep handy.One of the few drawbacks of The Elements is that it may make people self conscious about all of the mistakes that they have been making in their writing. A bigger problem, as many reviewers have pointed out, is that some of the advice is dated because it is based on the way Americans spoke and wrote in the past.I recommend The Elements of Style.
This is not the best edition of the book. It seemed to be a more accurate representation of the original writing but The Elements of Style 4th Edition is a better educational book. The Elements of Style (4th Edition)
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