The Elements of Style - Hardcover

Strunk, William Jr.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1940177480 ISBN 13: 9781940177489

Verlag: Singer, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

"No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will help any writer more than this persistent little volume." - The Boston Globe You know the author's name. You recognize the title. The advice of Strunk is as valuable today as when it was first offered. This book has conveyed the principles of English style to millions of readers. Use "the little book" to make a big impact with writing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

William Strunk Jr. was an American professor of English at Cornell University and the original author of The Elements of Style. Written for his students and first privately circulated in the late 1910s, Strunk's compact manual set out a forceful approach to English prose based on clarity, brevity, grammatical control, and disciplined revision. His most famous instruction, "omit needless words," became one of the best-known pieces of writing advice in American education.Strunk's influence reached far beyond his classroom after his former student E. B. White helped bring the manual to a much wider public in the 1959 Strunk and White edition. The book's authority has been debated, praised, criticized, imitated, and assigned for decades, but its place in the history of American writing instruction is secure. Strunk remains associated with the ideal of clean, direct prose: writing that avoids clutter, chooses concrete language, and treats style as a matter of order, emphasis, and respect for the reader.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Singer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1940177480
• ISBN 13: 9781940177489
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 70
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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