The Elements of Style by William Strunk

"The Elements of Style" by William Strunk is a style guide first published in 1920. This compact manual distills the essentials of clear English prose into rules about grammar, punctuation, composition, and word usage. Strunk's original "little book" urged writers to omit needless words and embrace brevity. Later enlarged by his former student E. B. White in 1959, it became the influential writing guide known as "Strunk & White," selling millions of copies and shaping generations of American writers with its prescriptive approach to craft. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Strunk, William, 1869-1946
LoC No. 20017753
Title The Elements of Style
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 62.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PE: Language and Literatures: English
Subject English language -- Rhetoric
Subject English language -- Style
Subject Report writing
Category Text
EBook-No. 37134
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Aug 19, 2011
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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