Comments on: Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style http://www.dailywritingtips.com/strunk-and-whites-the-elements-of-style/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:00:10 -0600 hourly 1 By: Mara http://www.dailywritingtips.com/strunk-and-whites-the-elements-of-style/comment-page-1/#comment-10665 Mara Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:21:16 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/strunk-and-whites-the-elements-of-style/#comment-10665 Check out "Spunk & Bite: A writer's guide to punchier, more engaging language & style" by Arthur Plotnik. It is a fun read, and very helpful to writers who are trying to spice up their prose. It also confronts the sometimes dreary guidance in "Elements of Style." Check out “Spunk & Bite: A writer’s guide to punchier, more engaging language & style” by Arthur Plotnik. It is a fun read, and very helpful to writers who are trying to spice up their prose. It also confronts the sometimes dreary guidance in “Elements of Style.”

]]> By: links for 2007-08-28 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/strunk-and-whites-the-elements-of-style/comment-page-1/#comment-1285 links for 2007-08-28 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:36:37 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/strunk-and-whites-the-elements-of-style/#comment-1285 [...] Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style A review of this classic writer’s guide. I recommend the hard-covered, illustrated version. On Daily Writing Tips. (tags: book review writing grammar) [...] [...] Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style A review of this classic writer’s guide. I recommend the hard-covered, illustrated version. On Daily Writing Tips. (tags: book review writing grammar) [...]

]]> By: Maeve http://www.dailywritingtips.com/strunk-and-whites-the-elements-of-style/comment-page-1/#comment-1276 Maeve Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:03:42 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/strunk-and-whites-the-elements-of-style/#comment-1276 Maria, <i>The Elements of Style</i> has no doubt exercised plenty of negative influence on literalists who have tried to model all of their writing on its precepts. Guides like <i>Elements</i> are tools, not templates. Writers who follow any guide slavishly are like the boy in the tale who carries butter home under his hat on a hot day because that's how his mother told him to carry something else. Maria,
The Elements of Style has no doubt exercised plenty of negative influence on literalists who have tried to model all of their writing on its precepts.

Guides like Elements are tools, not templates. Writers who follow any guide slavishly are like the boy in the tale who carries butter home under his hat on a hot day because that’s how his mother told him to carry something else.

]]> By: Cockeyed Optimist » Strunk and White's 'Elements of Style' http://www.dailywritingtips.com/strunk-and-whites-the-elements-of-style/comment-page-1/#comment-1273 Cockeyed Optimist » Strunk and White's 'Elements of Style' Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:27:38 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/strunk-and-whites-the-elements-of-style/#comment-1273 [...] the excellent Blog ‘Daily Writing Tips’ for August 27, Maeve Maddox, one of the gurus behind this enterprise, gives a useful summary of [...] [...] the excellent Blog ‘Daily Writing Tips’ for August 27, Maeve Maddox, one of the gurus behind this enterprise, gives a useful summary of [...]

]]> By: Maria http://www.dailywritingtips.com/strunk-and-whites-the-elements-of-style/comment-page-1/#comment-1261 Maria Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:23:53 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/strunk-and-whites-the-elements-of-style/#comment-1261 An excellent book although I've read plenty of reviews that aren't so positive about it. My favorite edition is the illustrated one. Hard covered, filled with unusual illustrations related to the examples. Makes me smile when I browse through it. An excellent book although I’ve read plenty of reviews that aren’t so positive about it.

My favorite edition is the illustrated one. Hard covered, filled with unusual illustrations related to the examples. Makes me smile when I browse through it.

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