The Elements of Style, the definitive writing guide by E.B. White and William Strunk Jr., turns 50 on Thursday. To mark the anniversary, its publisher has released an elegantly bound, ...

“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a m… ...

My conclusion: We’ve been duped. Here’s an example of something you’ll find in the original “Elements of Style” by William Strunk Jr.: “Headings. Leave a blank line, or its equivalent ...

This April, the famed collaborative work of two Cornell alumni, William Strunk Jr., grad, 1896, and English professor, and E.B. White ’21, The Elements of Style celebrates its 50th anniversary.

Take the revised edition of The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White for example. In 1918, Strunk, a Cornell University English Professor, wrote a 43-page style guide and called ...

But while those pairs were contemporaries, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White worked four decades apart, yet the little known turn-of-the-century Cornell University English professor and his ...

We can only hope. That a manual written by a college professor—William Strunk, Jr.—for his English class, and then added to by one of his students—E. B. White—should thrive and be the ...