The Elements of Style

Brief Description: Current publisher and publishing date from iPage. IngramContent.com. Brief Description: A concise style manual that provides the basic elementary principles of English usage and composition, with tips on commonly misused words and expressions, style, and spelling. Marc Notes: Reprint of the edition published in 1918.; Current publisher and publishing date from iPage. IngramContent.com.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 1-2).; A concise style manual that provides the basic elementary principles of English usage and composition, with tips on commonly misused words and expressions, style, and spelling. Publisher Marketing: The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. is a prescriptive American English writing style guide comprising eight "elementary rules of usage," ten "elementary principles of composition," "a few matters of form," a list of forty-nine "words and expressions commonly misused," and a list of fifty-seven "words often misspelled." In 2011, Time magazine listed The Elements of Style as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923.[ Review Citations:

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