William Strunk's and E.B. White's little book "The Elements of Style" has stood the test of time. It was copyrighted by Strunk in 1918. In 1919 it was required reading at Cornell University. It has ...

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This April, the famed collaborative work of two Cornell alumni, William Strunk Jr., grad, 1896, and English professor, and E.B. White ’21, The Elements of Style celebrates its 50th anniversary. Known ...

It’s not on as many bookshelves as it once was, so I refer you to page 9 of my well-worn third edition of Strunk and White’s “The Elements of Style,” where it reads: “Use a dash to set off an abrupt ...

Starting in college, I lived under the shadow of Strunk and White’s “The Elements of Style,” a slender volume on concise and accurate language use in writing. Prone to using excessive adjectives and ...