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EDITION:50th Edition
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ISBN:0205632645
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ISBN-13:9780205632640
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PUB. DATE:October 2008
- PUBLISHER:Longman
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No E.B. White Sectionby clstearns
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This book DOES NOT include the addendum by E.B. White, "An Approach to Style," even though the description includes it in the contents listing.
A good book marred by the foreword?by Anonymous
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A quick glance at the foreword makes me wonder if they should have left the 'little book' alone after the third edition. Here are a few gems from the foreword -- 2nd para: 'Less frequent practitioners - the job applicant; the business executive .. ; the high school senior .. ; the graduate-school student .. ; the writer ..' ---> Rule 2. In a series of three or more terms .., use a comma after...
Perfect!by Anonymous
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I am an english major at my college, and also a grammar nut, so it was more than appropriate that my husband purchased this updated edition for me as a Christmas gift. I love it! I wish that my professor's had assigned this text in English 101. I now recommend this to the students that I tutor in the Writing Lab. The explantions are graceful and so understandable. It makes grammar more approachable....
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The Elements of Style
Product Details
- Pub. Date: October 2008
- Publisher: Longman
- ISBN-13: 9780205632640
- ISBN: 0205632645
- Edition Description: Anniversar
Synopsis
You know the authors names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. And now The Elements of Style the most widely read and employed English style manual is available in a specially bound 50th Anniversary Edition that offers the title's vast audience an opportunity to own a more durable and elegantly bound edition of this time-tested classic.
Offering the same content as the Fourth Edition, revised in 1999, the new casebound 50th Anniversary Edition includes a brief overview of the book's illustrious history. Used extensively by individual writers as well as high school and college students of writing, it has conveyed the principles of English style to millions of readers. This new deluxe edition makes the perfect gift for writers of any age and ability level.
Biography
William Strunk, Jr. was a Professor of English at Cornell University and first published a private editon of his "little book" in 1919 for his own writing students. The book was published in 1935 by Oliver Strunk.
E. B. White was a student in Professor Strunk's class at Cornell, and used the small volume himself, during which time he became respectful and appreciative of its pithy and indispensable writing advice. Commissioned by Macmillan to revise the book, White edited and created new material for the 1959 and 1972 editions of The Elements of Style.
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