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	The Elements of Style - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		White studied under Strunk in 1919 but had forgotten the "little book," a "forty-three-page summation of the case for cleanliness, accuracy and brevity in the use of English." A few weeks later, White wrote a piece for The New Yorker lauding Professor Strunk and his devotion to "lucid" English prose.
		Strunk's original version concentrated on specific questions of usage, cultivating what he considered good writing and avoiding prolixities: "Make every word tell." White updated and extended these sections, and prefixed an introductory essay adapted from his New Yorker article.
		By the time the fourth edition of "Strunk and White" appeared in 1999 its second author had died, and the manuscript rights were acquired by Longman, who added a foreword by White's stepson, Roger Angell, an afterword by Charles Osgood, a glossary and index.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strunk_and_White (418 words)

	Inner Dialogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Strunk and White address the use of extra words in their book on pages 23-24, and it is short and sweet.
		Strunk and White are in agreement with Williams that useless words should be omitted; the difference in their book is that they are able to say this in a page and half.
		Strunk and White discuss that clarity in writing is not always essential, but that writing is a form of communication so it is necessary to be clear.
	www.msekins.blogspot.com (3555 words)

	Kristen's Eng. 328 Blog
		Strunk and White do not physically place the emphasis on clarity, either, as Williams does; their section on clarity is only part of a page, buried in the fifth chapter and Williams section on clarity is the first chapter.
		Strunk and White's audience was the stereotypical professional, white male.
		Strunk and White's manual is very cut and dry with little or no explanation whereas Williams' text is extremely detailed and full of explanations.
	kbretti.blogspot.com (3454 words)

	el-hombre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Strunk and White may be drill sergeants masquerading as writers and authors, but at the end of the day, what they have presented us with is simply a tool with which to use as we mold and shape our literary minds.
		Strunk and White dictate what they believe are all the concrete rules about the craft of writing, and that anyone who wants to be a writer should follow these rules to the letter, with no exceptions.
		Strunk and White say that the exclamation mark should only be used after a true exclamation or commands, such as “What a great movie!” or “Stop!” I am a self-described exclamation mark-user, but after reading this part of chapter three, I think I have learned a small, yet valuable lesson for my future writing.
	cjmcglynn.blogspot.com (4441 words)

	Nice Blog
		Williams is to a textbook as Strunk and White is to a handbook.
		Strunk & White, as previously discussed, is appealing to the dead white poet demographic while Williams is taking a more modern attempt to further educate an already collegiate trained writer in professional writing style.
		According to Strunk and White "when you become hopelessly mired in a sentence, it is best to start fresh." They also have interesting things to say about using figures of speech and using standard language as opposed to fancy words in writing.
	hannum.blogspot.com (2595 words)

	Mac's English 328 Blog
		Strunk and White are rigid in their approach, but the information they provide on how to write more concisely is helpful.
		Strunk and White is a good reference book for any grammatical questions a writer might have, but their descriptions on how to write well leave a lot to be desired.
		Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style, and Joseph Williams Style Toward Clarity and Grace, are both excellent handbooks for beginning writers.
	macvan.blogspot.com (2383 words)

	Cristy Busch/Blog
		Both Williams and Strunk and White mention not being too wordy and as I read some of their passages I found myself thinking that is me. I have always wrote with the "fancy" words, as Strunk and White described it.
		In Strunk and White's text though the intended audience seems to be for more of a beginner and the passages were easily spelled out, with simple directions.
		Amy made a statement that Strunk and White was written for the college student and I believe that this is true just by the lay out of the text.
	cristybusch.blogspot.com (1652 words)

	Amy's Blog
		Strunk and White remind us that words must go in a certain order to make sense and that punctuation is not an option but a command.
		As I read through Strunk and White, there was a constant voice in my head that brought forth images of an old English teacher smacking a ruler across her hand as she made clear these grammatical rules.
		Strunk and White were very effective in certain areas in their approach.
	amyljohnson.blogspot.com (2703 words)

	ENGL 328 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Strunk and White’s book, just from the size alone is geared toward lower level college students because it’s something small and affordable, while Williams’ “chapter book” targets higher level students, solely by its cover and form of writing.
		As Strunk and White point out, “generally speaking, the place for broken sentences is in dialogue, when a character happens to speak in a clipped or fragmentary way.” Not only in dialogue, but it’s also beneficial in newspaper writing.
		Strunk and White’s book does a better job of analyzing often misused words and clearing up common mistakes, while William’s book is more focused on clarity, coherence and structure.
	kellymcdonald.blogspot.com (3874 words)

	Rules of Usage. Strunk, William, Jr. 1918. Elements of Style
		If a parenthetic expression is preceded by a conjunction, place the first comma before the conjunction, not after it.
		He saw us coming, and unaware that we had learned of his treachery, greeted us with a smile.
		He saw a woman, accompanied by two children, walking slowly down the road.
	www.bartleby.com /141/strunk.html (1707 words)

	Heather's Eng 328 Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Something from Strunk and White that I found the most helpful when writing my own papers is One of the funnier examples from this chapter is Using the word “Anybody”, Strunk and White say “ In the sense of “any person,” not to be written as two words.
		Strunk and White never mentioned this “rules” in their book, which made me a little mad because I was expecting Strunk and Whites book to by kind of my guide throughout the rest of my college career and into my actual job as an English Teacher.
		Strunk and White do a very good job of explaining how to use concrete language and actually when in fact to use it.
	hpowe.blogspot.com (1960 words)

	This is the title of a web page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Some of what she writes about is similar to Elements of Style (Strunk and White), but her goal is to make the reader more efficient and successful in the business world, whereas Strunk and White’s goal seems to be to make its reader successful in the academic world.
		Although Strunk and White and Booher are very different in their approach and audience, they agree on some of the basic rules of grammar.
		Strunk and White and Dianna Booher seem to feel just as strongly about certain things, which is interesting because of their differing audiences.
	www.geocities.com /edownie2002/index5.html (1141 words)

	The Chronicle: 8/13/2004: Style: a Pleasure for the Reader, or the Writer?
		White understood that The Elements of Style offered a particular perspective on writing style and did not (as he wrote in the Introduction) "pretend to survey the whole field." Moreover, his own style, although outwardly plain, simple, orderly, and sincere, was also idiosyncratic, opinionated, and unmistakable.
		If White, Williams, and Zinsser are the senior faculty of a button-down school of writing instruction, these authors belong to an alternative academy, dressed, as it were, in Hawaiian shirts, drawstring hemp pants, and sandals.
		Strunk and White is merely the best-selling example of the most recent pendulum swing.
	chronicle.com /free/v50/i49/49b01601.htm (2613 words)

	The Elements of Style : Strunk and White (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		White, who had studied under the nebbish Strunk in the years following World War I.
		Though Strunk had passed away, White independently built on his foundation to create a rare reference book[?] that's also a literary classic[?].
		Strunk's version concentrated on specific questions of usage, cultivating good writing and avoiding prolixities: "Make every word tell." White updated and extended these sections and added an introductory essay and the conclusion, "An Approach to Style," a broader guide to writing in English.
	www.termsdefined.net /st/strunk-and-white.html (383 words)

	First Blog
		After reading Strunk and White I found myself believing that style was cut and dry; only one correct way to write existed and I had simply overlooked the writing “Bible” for 22 years.
		Strunk and White use imperative sentences for a reason; they are confident with the stylistic rules they provide.
		Stunk and White accomplish their task of writing to an audience that want the “bottom line.” However, the book recognizes the fact that there is no “bottom line” in writing; there are merely rules that help in maintaining cohesive writing, which can be manipulated and still successfully followed.
	emudance.blogspot.com (3208 words)

	My English 328 Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Although the Strunk and White book was useful, it was not as informative as the Williams book.
		Unlike Strunk and White, Williams required their reader to pay attention and actually think about writing as a process and not just a creative form of expression.
		Strunk and White is a good basic reference manual for those writers who already know the basics but need a quick reminder of what is considered proper academic writing.
	www.lindajames.blogspot.com (2753 words)

	eng328
		After reading both Strunk and Whites’ “The Elements of Style,” and Williams’ “Style: Lessons Toward Clarity and Grace,” I found that there are many key elements when it comes to style.
		Strunk and White are useful for the rules that are necessary when writing composition, but as far as being helpful with Style, I think they missed the boat.
		Strunk states that this should be done when the passage is meant to be more distinguished than the rest of the writing.
	larakob.blogspot.com (2766 words)

	Amanda Koch
		While I do find Strunk and White’s book useful for quick reference, I don’t believe many readers are actually going to change their writing style, or have an idea of what style is for that matter.
		Strunk focuses on the weakness shown in negative sentences, while Williams focuses on the lack of clarity in negative sentences.
		Strunk and White tell their readers to speak in positive terms and to avoid the use of the word “not.” In their rules on pages 72-80, they use the word “not” in 9 of the rules.
	www.amandaskoch.blogspot.com (2545 words)

	English 328
		I found the section on misused words in Strunk and White to be useful, and I think that Williams’ chapter on Concision addresses the same issue of verbosity in bad or mediocre writing.
		While Strunk and White point to specific words that are often unnecessary, Williams addresses the broader concept of "less is more." He gives many examples of sources of wordiness such as pompous diction and meaningless modifiers.
		One of the major problems I had with a Strunk and White recommendation comes from the statement that a good writer should "prefer the standard to the offbeat." Williams has an interesting discourse on this topic in his final section on usage, and his conclusion seems to be that many of our standards are arbitrary.
	ravieng328.blogspot.com (1476 words)

	Daniel Traister's Home Page--Review of Strunk and White (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		George Orwell laid the philosophical foundation for the form of English several of his disciples labeled "Plainspeak." But Strunk and White's Elements of Style was the playbook that made Plainspeak the standard for 20th century American writing.
		E.B. White, a Strunk student, took his professor's guidebook to heart and used its principles to become one of the country's great essayists, a consummate stylist who added to the luster of his long career at the New Yorker with children's classics such as Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little.
		White stuck with that terse spirit, noting that "even after I got through tampering with it, it was still a tiny thing, a barely tarnished gem" of 85 pages.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~traister/strunkrev.html (896 words)

	Amanda's First Blog
		She noted that “Where Strunk and White wanted to build the basics of writing into students, Williams’ wants to show professionals and higher-level students how to write effectively.” She does this well by explaining that Strunk and White is a book that teaches you, among other things, specific punctuation and grammar issues.
		The fact that Strunk and White’s text is more of a manual and less of a text implies that for instances of quick reference, the manual form of the two will prove better because you do not need to hunt around long examples to find the rule you are looking for.
		Strunk and White have a style manual with a table of contents that is specifically catered for a reference type of book while I find that Williams’ content headings are more broad and less specific.
	www.athomason.blogspot.com (3745 words)

	Frankenstrunk - The Boston Globe
		Probably not; White was in a trap the moment he started revising the 1959 ''Elements." That book could stand as a quirky appreciation of White's old teacher, its dated items just amusing historical artifacts.
		White surely knew that some of Strunk's crotchets-his insistence on I shall, say, or his rule that however, meaning ''nevertheless," could not begin a sentence-were becoming untenable; but they were Strunk being Strunk.
		But if White, in his revisions, admitted that aggravate could mean irritate (as it did in 1611), or that I could care less was not a mystifying mistake, his usage notes would lose their essential Strunkiness, that bluff certainty that had hooked him in the first place.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/10/23/frankenstrunk (670 words)

	sarahENGL328
		Strunk and White gear their book for the students who need to follow rules at the onset so they can get the writing process right.” This makes sense to me in the way I think of each book.
		White describes his old professor, Strunk, in a way that allowed me to picture him in a mind, and see his frustration as he reads over a student’s paper and sees another broken grammar rule that he had many times repeated.
		Strunk and White write forcefully, as if this book is the final say on any grammar discrepancies.
	sarahengl328.blogspot.com (2649 words)

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		Strunk and White would not agree with Williams’ idea about the arrangement of point rule because they do not consider it to be an issue.
		Strunk and White’s idea parallels Williams’ because they believe that we should write in a manner that uses clarity.
		Strunk and White say that the proper usage would be to simply say “whether” (Strunk and White 41).
	people.emich.edu /jbanks/style.html (927 words)

	The Elements of Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Elements of Style ("the little book" – 1918) is an American English writing style guide; focusing on seven elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition of unparalleled terseness, with a few matters of form and commonly misused expressions.
		White had studied under Strunk in 1919, but he had forgotten this "forty-three-page summation of the case for cleanliness, accuracy, and brevity in the use of English." He published in The New Yorker a brief piece that paid tribute to Professor Strunk's devotion to lucid English prose.
		Though Strunk had died, White independently built on his foundation to create a rare reference book that is also a literary classic, "Strunk & White."
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/the_elements_of_style (330 words)

	style
		Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style should not be seen as etched in stone, but the fundamental rules presented may help improve one’s writing.
		The guidelines Strunk and White offer are more effective because of the short, sweet, and to the point approach they make, however, used alongside Williams’ book allows for a more in-depth analysis and understanding beyond the rules.
		Strunk and White may be better suited for the reader/writer who is concerned with the "proper" way to write.
	people.emich.edu /msaintjo/style.html (1200 words)

	AGall's Blog
		As Strunk and White point out, "In general, remember that paragraphing calls for a good eyes as well as logical mind...Moderation and a sense of order should be the main considerations in paragraphing"(17).
		Since each paragraph is made up of many sentences, Strunk and White and Williams break down sentence structure by focusing on the concrete langauage and simple terminology that allows readers tomake connections to the reading.
		Although both are considered reference materials, Strunk and White proived the basic "Dick and Jane" scenario that allows students to better process the "rules" of grammar.
	galdilocks.blogspot.com (2388 words)

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