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Don't be a hack. I do not know how I managed to write one meaningful sentence without The Elements Of Style. Every word in this masterpiece makes perfect sense.
My professors never mentioned it in college. I am disappointed with all of them.This book is a must have for anyone who is serious about communicating with the written word. I do not know why I wasn't ever told about this book.
It makes every other book on writing worthless and overwritten. Get this book. Writing partners never said a word.
Editors I have worked with failed to give a hint.
E.B. I have read it scores of times since it was assigned to me in college and my tattered copy still sits aside my keyboard as a roadblock to the myriad pitfalls of poor communication. Planning to be stranded on a dessert island or to send a child off to college (the intellectual equivalent of same). White was a genius and his genius lives here in succinct gorgeous prose. Buy several copies and distribute them to your friends and relatives. This is the essential book; more valuable than a Swiss army knife or dorm fridge. The "little book" has more meat and big ideas about clear thinking and clear writing than you will find in one-hundred "How to write" books.
We have used the book for years and I sent this to our grandsons in CA.
This is a scanned version of the original Strunk book (without White's contribution). Don't make the same mistake that I did. I thought I was getting White & Strunk's Elements of Style. Since I didn't pay close enough attention to the exact words on the screen, I got a different book.
Elements of Style is an essential tool for any writer. I didn't realize that it would be the original Elements of Style, but was hoping for an updated edition. But that was my fault for not checking thoroughly.
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