This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in Chapters II and III) on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. The numbers of the sections may be used as references in correcting manuscript.
The book covers only a small portion of the field of English style, but the experience of its writer has been that once past the essentials, students profit most by individual instruction based on the problems of their own work, and that each instructor has his own body of theory, which he prefers to that offered by any textbook.
The writer's colleagues in the Department of English in Cornell University have greatly helped him in the preparation of his manuscript. Mr. George McLane Wood has kindly consented to the inclusion under Rule 11 of some material from his Suggestions to Authors.
The following books are recommended for reference or further study: in connection with Chapters II and IV, F. Howard Collins, Author and Printer (Henry Frowde); Chicago University Press, Manual of Style; T. L. De Vinne Correct Composition (The Century Company); Horace Hart, Rules for Compositors and Printers (Oxford University Press); George McLane Wood, Extracts from the Style-Book of the Government Printing Office (United States Geological Survey); in connection with Chapters III and V, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Art of Writing (Putnams), especially the chapter, Interlude on Jargon; George McLane Wood, Suggestions to Authors (United States Geological Survey); John Leslie Hall, English Usage (Scott, Foresman and Co.); James P. Kelly, Workmanship in Words (Little, Brown and Co.).
It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader will usually find in the sentence some compensating merit, attained at the cost of the violation. Unless he is certain of doing as well, he will probably do best to follow the rules. After he has learned, by their guidance, to write plain English adequate for everyday uses, let him look, for the secrets of style, to the study of the masters of literature.
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...
评分如果一个英文作家不知道这本书,那他肯定不是个英文作家。这本出版了将近百年的小书,已经成为了最有影响的英文写作指导书。先是由教授William Strunk Jr.自行出版,拿这本书教他的学生。他的学生E. B.怀特后来成了《纽约客》的编辑,并奠定了它幽默与优雅并存的文风。当出版社...
评分如果一个英文作家不知道这本书,那他肯定不是个英文作家。这本出版了将近百年的小书,已经成为了最有影响的英文写作指导书。先是由教授William Strunk Jr.自行出版,拿这本书教他的学生。他的学生E. B.怀特后来成了《纽约客》的编辑,并奠定了它幽默与优雅并存的文风。当出版社...
评分I bought this book for almost two years, but never finished reading it. Appealing stories always distract me. I take seriously to enhance my writing this time. The fellowing is my note. Part One: 11 principles of usage 1. Form the possessive singular of n...
“Forceful!” 经久不衰的实用好书!
评分读的应该是1950年版的,电子版,只有50多页
评分“Forceful!” 经久不衰的实用好书!
评分读的应该是1950年版的,电子版,只有50多页
评分The 3rd edition. A great book. Why the hell that no one ever mentioned this book in my eng lessons? Hope it's not too late now.
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