{"id":757,"date":"2012-09-02T01:41:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=757"},"modified":"2012-09-02T01:41:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:41:01","slug":"year-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 31"},"content":{"rendered":"

1918: The Elements of Style<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Author\/Editor: William Strunk & E. B. White<\/h4>\n

Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n

Strunk & White\u2019s Elements of Style<\/em> was written in 1918 for in-house use<\/a> at Cornell, where E.B. White encountered it in composition class the following year. Years later, in 1957, White revised it for MacMillan, which created the now-iconic Strunk & White. Since 1957, many students have found themselves assigned the little book.<\/p>\n

The little book was my introduction to the idea that there is such a thing as writing style. While I can\u2019t claim to follow all the elements of style, I can claim to aspire to them. I\u2019m always reminded of Strunk & White when I revise what I\u2019ve written and am pained to omit needless words. In this paragraph, for example, I\u2019ve only managed to dispose of four, but that\u2019s four better than it might have been.<\/p>\n

The Elements of Style <\/em>has been criticized as excessively prescriptive and sometimes lacking in grammatical foundation. These are fair criticisms, but I think it has a lasting impact because, as Strunk noticed,<\/p>\n

\u201cthe best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader will usually find in that sentence some compensating merit, attained at the cost of the violation.\u201d<\/p>\n

When we know the rules, we can deploy them strategically.<\/p>\n

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