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… ...

To read the back cover of Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style," you'd think it was God's gift to the English-speaking world — "excellent," "timeless," "delightful," " … should be the ...

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.

When it comes to writing well some things never change—at least not all that much. Take the revised edition of The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White for example. In 1918 ...

History's famous word collaborators include Gilbert and Sullivan, Lennon and McCartney, Woodward and Bernstein. But while those pairs were contemporaries, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White worked ...

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 object of reverence of ...