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Elements of Style reviewed
Elements of Style reviewed
“At its best when it limns the gap between the seemingly straightforward advice of Strunk and White (use active voice, avoid needless words) with [and?] the messiness of the ensemble’s lived experiences”: from a Chicago Reader review of the Neo-Futurist stage show Elements of Style.
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Elements of Style reviewed
The Elements on the stage
The Elements on the stage
Opening in Chicago tomorrow, from The Neo-Futurist Theater: Elements of Style, a stage show based on The Elements of Style. The makers have taken to heart the admonition to omit needless words, having omitted the from their title, and all spoken words from their production.
#Strunk#EBWhite
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The Elements on the stage
Strunk and Kondo again
Strunk and Kondo again
The Elements of Style reappeared in the fifth episode of the Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. The book is a point of contention.
#EBWhite#Strunk
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Strunk and Kondo again
“How to use the passive voice”
“How to use the passive voice”
Any teacher who has seen student-writers work to strip all sense of agency from their sentences (“It will be argued that,” “It is observed that”) understands the point of “Use the active voice.”
#grammar#Strunk#usage#EBWhite
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“How to use the passive voice”
Strunk and White mattering
Strunk and White mattering
“Strunk & White was the first text for millions that persuaded reluctant writers that the writing craft was not an act of magic, but the applied use of both rules and tools”: Roy Peter Clark writes about “Why Strunk & White still matters (or matter) (or both).”
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Strunk and White mattering
Strunk and White and Comey
Strunk and White and Comey
“Reinhold Niebuhr’s Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man had a huge impact on me, as did Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style, which was one of 12 books in my college course ‘Significant Books in Western Religion.’”
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Strunk and White and Comey
An Elements of Style collection
An Elements of Style collection
If The Elements of Style were an arcade game, Jerry Morris would have the highest score, and the next highest score, and the score after that, and so on.
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An Elements of Style collection
Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style
Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style
“The Sense of Style is a disappointing book. It presents its author as a figure of urbane intelligence — witty, knowing, calmly superior — doing battle against agitated, deluded, self-styled experts. But the enemy in this book is a straw man or woman, or a whole army of straw folk. And the non-imaginary writer whose work poses perhaps the greatest challenge to Pinker’s own claim to authority is nowhere to be found in these pages.”
#BryanGarner#grammar#StevenPinker#Strunk#usage#EBWhite
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Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style
McGrath on Pinker on Strunk and White
McGrath on Pinker on Strunk and White
“Like Pinker, McGrath repeats Geoffrey Pullum’s claim that Strunk and White do not understand the passive voice. As I’ve argued in a response to Pullum’s take on The Elements of Style, that claim is a misreading of the plain sense of Strunk and White’s text.”
#grammar#Strunk#EBWhite
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McGrath on Pinker on Strunk and White
A style guide for the music biz
A style guide for the music biz
“Despite the Wall Street Journal article’s title and opening reference to Strunk and White, the Music Metadata Style Guide makes no mention of grammar or punctuation. NONe. Or none. It covers the more mundane matters of capitalization, spelling, and metadata entry.”
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A style guide for the music biz
E. B. White on W3
E. B. White on W3
Did E. B. White have anything to say about Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (hereafter, W3), the dictionary that some thought marked the decline and fall of American English? Yes.
#dictionary#Strunk#EBWhite
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E. B. White on W3
Five prepositions
Five prepositions
“What did you bring that book that I don’t want to be read to out of up for?”
#Strunk#EBWhite
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Five prepositions
An Elements error
An Elements error
In his neverending battle against The Elements of Style, Geoffrey Pullum has overlooked one genuine mistake in the book, or at least in the book’s 1959 edition.
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An Elements error
Strunk and White rap
Strunk and White rap
“Jails and schools should not be called facilities. / I hate all these writers with second-rate abilities.”
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Strunk and White rap