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It makes every other book on writing worthless and overwritten. Editors I have worked with failed to give a hint. I do not know how I managed to write one meaningful sentence without The Elements Of Style. My professors never mentioned it in college. Get this book. I am disappointed with all of them.This book is a must have for anyone who is serious about communicating with the written word.
Don't be a hack. I do not know why I wasn't ever told about this book. Writing partners never said a word. Every word in this masterpiece makes perfect sense.
Buy several copies and distribute them to your friends and relatives. E.B. 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. 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). This is the essential book; more valuable than a Swiss army knife or dorm fridge. White was a genius and his genius lives here in succinct gorgeous prose.
We have used the book for years and I sent this to our grandsons in CA.
Since I didn't pay close enough attention to the exact words on the screen, I got a different book. This is a scanned version of the original Strunk book (without White's contribution). I thought I was getting White & Strunk's Elements of Style. Don't make the same mistake that I did.
But that was my fault for not checking thoroughly. I didn't realize that it would be the original Elements of Style, but was hoping for an updated edition. Elements of Style is an essential tool for any writer.
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