The Elements of Style
📄 Viewing lite version
Full site ›
Book Details
Author(s)William Strunk
ISBN / ASIN1721650393
ISBN-139781721650392
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank4,014
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description ▲
The Elements of Style is a study guide for the development of writing style by William Strunk Jr., a professor of English at Cornell University. It was later finished by his student, Elwyn Brooks White. Now it is commonly known as “the study guide by Strunk and White”. In short, this book is for someone who wants to become a writer. The Elements of Style is some kind of examples’ collection of all kinds of styles of writing very different works. It comprises eight "elementary rules of usage", ten "elementary principles of composition", "a few matters of form", a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused", and a list of 57 "words often misspelled".
Similar Products ▼
- On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
- On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft
- The Elements of Style Workbook: Writing Strategies with Grammar Book (Writing Workbook Featuring New Lessons on Writing with Style)
- The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
- The Elements of Style: Simplified and Illustrated for Busy People
- The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need: A One-Stop Source for Every Writing Assignment
- The Elements of Journalism, Revised and Updated 3rd Edition: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
- Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life