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The Elements of Style Summary & Review: Cut Until One Meaning Remains
The Elements of Style summary: Strunk and White’s little book on usage, composition, and cutting until one meaning remains.
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"Be clear. Then get out of the way."
E. B. White sat in William Strunk Jr.’s Cornell class in 1919, wrote for The New Yorker, and later wrote Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web. In 1957 he revived Strunk’s little book and added the chapter on style.
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Place yourself in the background
Style is not a costume. Clarity is the kindness.
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"The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity."— The Elements of Style
"Be clear."— The Elements of Style
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The Elements of Style Summary & Review: Cut Until One Meaning Remains
The Elements of Style summary: Strunk and White’s little book on usage, composition, and cutting until one meaning remains.