The Elements of Style
By: by William Strunk Jr. ; with revisions, an introduction, and a chapter on writing by E.B. White.
Contributors: White, E. B. 1899-1985.
Edition: 50th Anniversary ed.; 4th edition reprint
Publisher: Pearson Longman
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9780205632640
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric; English language -- Style; Report writing
Description: You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. And now The Elements of Style-the most widely read and employed English style manual-is available in a specially bound 50th Anniversary Edition that offers the title's vast audience an opportunity to own a more durable and elegantly bound edition of this time-tested classic.

Offering the same content as the Fourth Edition, revised in 1999, the new casebound 50th Anniversary Edition includes a brief overview of the book's illustrious history. Used extensively by individual writers as well as high school and college students of writing, it has conveyed the principles of English style to millions of readers. This new deluxe edition makes the perfect gift for writers of any age and ability level.
Notes: Includes index.

"This anniversary edition is a reprint of the fourth edition with an added Note from the Publisher"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Foreword
pagenum: ix; title: Introduction
pagenum: xiii; label: I
title: Elementary Rules of Usage
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's.
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each term except the last.
pagenum: 2; label: 3
title: Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas.
pagenum: 2; label: 4
title: Place a comma before a conjunction introducing an independent clause.
pagenum: 5; label: 5
title: Do not join independent clauses with a comma.
pagenum: 5; label: 6
title: Do not break sentences in two.
pagenum: 7; label: 7
title: Use a colon after an independent clause to introduce a list of particulars, an appositive, an amplification, or an illustrative quotation.
pagenum: 7; label: 8
title: Use a dash to set off an abrupt break or interruption and to announce a long appositive or summary.
pagenum: 9; label: 9
title: The number of the subject determines the number of the verb.
pagenum: 9; label: 10
title: Use the proper case of pronoun.
pagenum: 11; label: 11
title: A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammatical subject.
pagenum: 13; label: II
title: Elementary Principles of Composition
pagenum: 15; label: 12
title: Choose a suitable design and hold to it.
pagenum: 15; label: 13
title: Make the paragraph the unit of composition.
pagenum: 15; label: 14
title: Use the active voice.
pagenum: 18; label: 15
title: Put statements in positive form.
pagenum: 19; label: 16
title: Use definite, specific, concrete language.
pagenum: 21; label: 17
title: Omit needless words.
pagenum: 23; label: 18
title: Avoid a succession of loose sentences.
pagenum: 25; label: 19
title: Express coordinate ideas in similar form.
pagenum: 26; label: 20
title: Keep related words together.
pagenum: 28; label: 21
title: In summaries, keep to one tense.
pagenum: 31; label: 22
title: Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end.
pagenum: 32; label: III
title: A Few Matters of Form
pagenum: 34; label: IV
title: Words and Expressions Commonly Misused
pagenum: 39; label: V
title: An Approach to Style (With a List of Reminders)
pagenum: 66; label: 1
title: Place yourself in the background.
pagenum: 70; label: 2
title: Write in a way that comes naturally.
pagenum: 70; label: 3
title: Work from a suitable design.
pagenum: 70; label: 4
title: Write with nouns and verbs.
pagenum: 71; label: 5
title: Revise and rewrite.
pagenum: 72; label: 6
title: Do not overwrite.
pagenum: 72; label: 7
title: Do not overstate.
pagenum: 73; label: 8
title: Avoid the use of qualifiers.
pagenum: 73; label: 9
title: Do not affect a breezy manner.
pagenum: 73; label: 10
title: Use orthodox spelling.
pagenum: 74; label: 11
title: Do not explain too much.
pagenum: 75; label: 12
title: Do not construct awkward adverbs.
pagenum: 75; label: 13
title: Make sure the reader knows who is speaking.
pagenum: 76; label: 14
title: Avoid fancy words.
pagenum: 76; label: 15
title: Do not use dialect unless your ear is good.
pagenum: 78; label: 16
title: Be clear.
pagenum: 79; label: 17
title: Do not inject opinion.
pagenum: 79; label: 18
title: Use figures of speech sparingly.
pagenum: 80; label: 19
title: Do not take shortcuts at the cost of clarity.
pagenum: 80; label: 20
title: Avoid foreign languages.
pagenum: 81; label: 21
title: Prefer the standard to the offbeat.
pagenum: 81; title: Afterword
pagenum: 87; title: Glossary
pagenum: 89; title: Index
pagenum: 97