Ever.Īnd a very clever artist has figured out how to illustrate sentence fragments, misused words, the hyphen, participle phrases and lots of other teeth gritting English stumbling blocks-in a very Magritte sort of way. The Elements of Style is concise, easy to understand and practically perfect. Over the years, I have acquired other books on grammar (even one on Pittsburgh diction-go figure) but none can compare. Same Strunk & White – only this time with pictures. It’s a grammar book! This had to be a novel, a book on fashion, or something sharing a name. Only this edition is hardback and Illustrated! At first I thought: how queer can this be? It has got to be a mistake. This year, for my birthday, I received yet another copy. For me Boosies and Hawksies came and went, but Strunks and Whites have remained constant. It may have sounded more erotic than Strunk & White but certainly less dramatic.
Maryanne, made a similar pontification in the same lounge a month later “Oh no, I have lost my Boosey & Hawkes”* which I did understand. I think at one time I actually had four copies. This would become the first of many copies of Strunk & White that have come and gone in my life. A few weeks latter my required English 101 professor insisted we hit the bookstore and buy ‘The Elements of Style.’ We were to treat it like the Holy Grail of grammar, carry it with us at all times, sleep with it, and consider it our eternal faithful lover. A few weeks latter my required English 101 professor insisted we hit the bookstore and buy ‘The Elements of Style.’ We were to treat it like the Holy Grail of grammar, carry i I remember, my Freshman year, sitting in the Music Building lounge waiting for my next class when Maryanne came crashing in, with an appropriate amount of chaos, announcing to all “Oh crap, I can’t find my Strunk and White.” Everyone else in the room apparently knew what she was talking about, but I sat with a blank stare. I remember, my Freshman year, sitting in the Music Building lounge waiting for my next class when Maryanne came crashing in, with an appropriate amount of chaos, announcing to all “Oh crap, I can’t find my Strunk and White.” Everyone else in the room apparently knew what she was talking about, but I sat with a blank stare. Somebody should have run them through a wood chipper long ago, but here we are in 2010 assigning students a style guide that tells them that correct English requires them to write, "There were 5,000 screaming persons at the Lady Gaga concert.". Take that edict that you ought to say "10 persons" rather than "10 people." You can still find it in the recent editions of Strunk and White's revered Elements of Style, along with antique admonitions against saying "contact us" or calling something "worthwhile." The linguist Arnold Zwicky calls these zombie rules. Geoff Nunberg may have said it best: "The weird thing is to see rules like these passed down as traditional linguistic wisdom. I devoted some of my grammar thesis to criticizing this book, and it was time well spent. Take that edict that you ought to say "10 persons" rather than "10 people." You can still find it in the recent editions of Strunk This book is good for the following things: Using as a coaster for cold drinks I devoted some of my grammar thesis to criticizing this book, and it was time well spent. This book was refreshingly direct, tho a bit dense for any single reading, when it came to simple statements of 'do This and Not That'.This book is good for the following things: 1. While many of the options dealt with the process of creating the story, the characters, and the plot, most of them fell down when it came to simple and direct assertive guidelines to help cut out the clutter of a manuscript already essentially developed. however, none were as effective as this one with the simple tho difficult task of Editing my book.
Several deal with the craft of writing, developing characters, plot devices, and so on. I collected up a handfull of publications on writing to explore between drafts of my own book. The Best Book for the Editing Proceedure.
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