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Review Summary: Decent Desktop Reference for the Student / Professional |
Date: 2008-10-09 |
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Details: Strunk's work is a solid baseline for grammar, punctuation, and composition. If your workplace tends to create its own standards for linguistics, it might be valuable to keep this readily available.
It is somewhat limited in terms of all the possible usages of punctuation, and admits as much in its first pages. While this is a valuable reference for most scenarios, it can't stand alone. |
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Review Summary: The print leaves much to be desired. |
Date: 2008-10-01 |
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Details: The book is great, I mean it's a classic but this version looks like it came right off the photo copier of the original print for 100 years ago. It's horribly fussy and the copy spacing is poor. I suggest finding a version by a different publisher. |
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Review Summary: Good Book |
Date: 2008-09-26 |
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Details: I received this book in very good condition and arrived on time as expected. I am very happy with how my purchase was handled. About the book, it is a very good reference for anyone who wants to be a good writer. |
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Review Summary: a concise review of grammar rules, extremely useful! |
Date: 2008-09-24 |
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Details: William Strunk's book "The Elements of Style" was recommended to me by an American friend, whose linguistic abilities I value very high. I ordered the book immediately and was surprised, when it arrived, by how thin it was. It turned out to be a compendium, which would best be memorized (I am not joking!). This American English writing style guide was written in 1918, but has not aged at all. The most important rules of American English, and the ones most commonly forgotten (like the use of Saxon Genitive of commas), are gathered here. I found the collection of frequently misspelled words very useful, too (although I though of some I could add, for example "receive", which I see misspelled more often than not). For me, the most helpful part was the discussion on brevity and omitting then unnecessary words - I still struggle with long sentences and too many adjectives and adverbs. This small volume is a must-have for anyone who wants to write correctly in English! |
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Review Summary: Elements of Style |
Date: 2008-09-18 |
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Details: It was the wrong book that I purchased but the price was so inexpensive that I just kept the book. |
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