The Elements of Style
The Elements of Style is a prescriptive American English writing style guide in numerous editions. The original was composed by William Strunk Jr., in 1918, and published by Harcourt, in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage", ten "elementary principles of composition", "a few matters of form", a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused", and a list of 57 "words often misspelled". E. B. White greatly enlarged and revised the book for publication by Macmillan in 1959. That was the first edition of the so-called "Strunk & White", which Time named in 2011 one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923.
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The Elements of Style
The Elements of Style is a prescriptive American English writing style guide in numerous editions. The original was composed by William Strunk Jr., in 1918, and published by Harcourt, in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage", ten "elementary principles of composition", "a few matters of form", a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused", and a list of 57 "words often misspelled". E. B. White greatly enlarged and revised the book for publication by Macmillan in 1959. That was the first edition of the so-called "Strunk & White", which Time named in 2011 one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923.
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PE1408 .S772 (Strunk & White)
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William Strunk
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First expanded edition
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White died 1985
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Allyn & Bacon
Harcourt, Brace & Howe
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The Elements of Style (parfois ...... l de la littérature américaine
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The Elements of Style is a pre ...... written in English since 1923.
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The Elements of Style è una gu ...... tte con errori di ortografia".
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The Elements of Style是一本美国英语的写 ...... tyle列为从1923年到现在100本最富有影响力的书之一。
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The Elements of Style
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The Elements of Style
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The Elements of Style
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英文写作指南
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