The Elements of Style: The Original Edition |
 | Author: William Strunk
Publisher: Coyote Canyon Press
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Sales Rank: 139791
Media: Paperback
Edition: Original
Pages: 56
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.1 x 0.3
ISBN: 0979660742
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780979660740
ASIN: 0979660742
Publication Date: September 28, 2007
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This book is the classic reference text for clear writing and is generally considered a must-have for any student or writer. In this most revered of writing books, Strunk identifies the necessary qualities of proper American English style; and he does it all with wit and grace. Compelling and timeless, this book is simply the best of its kind.
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 The Elements of Style (Original Edition) October 18, 2009
Zhang Yingying (Macao, China)
This is an excellent book for writting. I strongly recommend it. The book has been shipped with good quality.
 Get a newer edition August 9, 2009
Nom de Bloom
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The original edition is not typeset, and that makes it very distracting. You can tell which typewriter was used to do original and edited pages. The letters wave up and down, for instance, 'c's are low, and 'u's are high on some pages.
I highly recommend getting a typeset edition, if one is available.
Unbelievable May 18, 2009
Gary W. Allison (Detroit, MI)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I do not know why I wasn't ever told about this book! My professors never mentioned it in college. Writing partners never said a word. Editors I have worked with failed to give a hint. I am disappointed with all of them.
This book is a must have for anyone who is serious about communicating with the written word. It makes every other book on writing worthless and overwritten. Every word in this masterpiece makes perfect sense. I do not know how I managed to write one meaningful sentence without The Elements Of Style. Don't be a hack. Get this book!
The essential book May 11, 2009
Chris Gregor (Great Barrington, MA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Planning to be stranded on a dessert island or to send a child off to college (the intellectual equivalent of same)? 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. E.B. White was a genius and his genius lives here in succinct gorgeous prose. 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. Buy several copies and distribute them to your friends and relatives!
Excellent reference March 10, 2009
Della M. Meisinger (Mahnomen, MN USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
We have used the book for years and I sent this to our grandsons in CA.
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