William Strunk Jr. (1 July 1869 – 26 September 1946) was a professor of English at Cornell University and author of the The Elements of Style (1918), which, after being revised and enlarged by his former student E. B. White, became a highly influential guide to English usage during the late 20th century.
Strunk was born and reared in Cincinnati, Ohio, the eldest of four surviving children of William and Ella Garretson Strunk.[1] He earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Cincinnati in 1890 and a PhD at Cornell University in 1896. He spent the academic year 1898–99 at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France, where he studied morphology and philology.[2]
Strunk first taught mathematics at Rose Polytechnical Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1890–91.[3] He then taught English at Cornell for 46 years, disdaining specialization and becoming expert in both classical and non-English literature.[4] In 1922 he published English Metres, a study of poetic metrical form, and he compiled critical editions of Cynewulf's Juliana, several works of Dryden, James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, and several Shakespearean plays.[5] Strunk was also active in a gathering known as the Manuscript Club, an "informal Saturday-night gathering of students and professors interested in writing," where he met "a sensitive and deeply thoughtful young man named Elwyn Brooks White."[6]
In 1935–36, Strunk enjoyed serving as the literary consultant for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Romeo and Juliet (1936). In the studio he was known as "the professor," in part because with his three-piece suit and wire-rim spectacles, he "looked as though he'd been delivered to the set from MGM's casting department."[7]
In 1918, Strunk privately published The Elements of Style for the use of his Cornell students, who gave it its nickname, "the little book." Strunk intended the guide "to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention...on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.” In 1935, Strunk and Edward A. Tenney revised and published the guide as The Elements and Practice of Composition (1935).
In his New Yorker column of July 27, 1957, E. B. White praised the "little book" as a "forty-three-page summation of the case for cleanliness, accuracy, and brevity in the use of English."[8] Macmillan and Company then commissioned White to revise The Elements of Style for republication. White's expansion and modernization of the 1935 edition sold more than two million copies. Since 1959, total sales of three editions in four decades has exceeded ten million copies.[9]
In 1900, Strunk married Olivia Emilie Locke, with whom he had three children, including the noted musicologist, Oliver Strunk.[10] William Strunk retired from Cornell in 1937. In 1945 he suffered a mental breakdown, diagnosed as "senile psychosis," and died less than a year later at the Hudson River Psychiatric Institute in Poughkeepsie, New York.[11] Strunk's Cornell obituary noted that his friends and former students remembered "his kindness, his helpfulness as a teacher and colleague, [and] his boyish lack of envy and guile."[12]
《全球英语写作经典:风格的要素(全新双色中英对照版)》一书完全尊重原书风格,主要包含了18条英语写作的用法和写作的一些基本原则或者在写作时需要注意的重要规则。中文版与英文版二书合一,一边学习英文写作,一边增进阅读能力,更超值!不只是写作指南,更是具跨界影响力的风格经典!用欧美人士的不朽经典学习最地道的英文写作,没读过《全球英语写作经典:风格的要素(全新双色中英对照版)》,别说你懂得英文写作!
英语学习最实用的写作指导手册;
英语老师最好用的写作授课指南。
当年定价2.25元的书,到如今还经久不衰,真是难得。 由于外企工作的原因,每天得要写好多邮件,为了让自己写出来的句子更加native,也更加易懂,我选择读起了此书。它对我的帮助很大,让我知道了在写作的时候哪些词是完全可以忽略不写的,如:The fact that, person...
评分W. Strunk Jr.的原著版本和E.B. White修订增补的版本有较大不同。 除了在前几章中的规则有增删外,White还单独增加了一章新的内容“An Approach to Style”,主要讲解了一些写作的宏观原则。这些原则和前几章所讲的规则相比,更抽象更一般化,有些原则不仅限于英文写作,也可...
评分我有时看字,有时写字。上过十数年语文课。像很多人一样,我在课堂外读书,在课堂内睡觉,在阅读中培养敏锐感觉,在睡梦中意淫前排美女。 我没有从读好书中学会写好书,却学会挑剔烂书。看烂书就像看H卡通里流着哈喇子的丑八怪猥亵美女,令我既恶心又愤怒。多余,滥用,浮...
评分听说这是一本相当牛的书,特地想见识一下。 确实是很实用的书,里面都是非常基础的写作常识,但是即使有着丰富写作经验的人也很不见得能保证不犯这些错误。这是一本类似于《Effective C++》那样的经典之作。只可惜内容实在太少啦,刚刚有一点“真是不错的书”的感觉,就结束了...
评分看这本书是因为英语e书房管理员写了强烈推荐,加之张五常和董桥的两篇推荐文章,才知道这本小册子在英文写作界的知名度。 先是花了两天的时间听完这本书的音频。一开始很吃力,因为之前就没有好好学过语法,对于标点符号的单词完全不认识。都是一边听一篇用灵格斯...
原文非常非常非常好,别看中文翻译就成。很长知识。
评分针对英文写作,偏基础,但也是成体系的。对于中文写作来说,少用被动语态,慎用副词这样的建议也是有效的。等学习英文写作时候会再看几遍
评分一开始读觉浅显,后来想想是自己太浅显。
评分目前还不需要英文写作,所以只是大概的看一下,以后还需要细细琢磨
评分感觉这本书被过誉了。不系统,难普适。毕竟只有这么薄一本而写作实在博大精深。。高中英语语法认真学了,英语底子好,基本上书里讲的都知道。就如书里所说,需实际阅读摸索、参阅《给作家的建议》和《写作的艺术》等等英文原作。。
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