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Elements of Style is very good. It can be a little prescriptive, but it's only 50-odd pages long and surprisingly fun to read.
by leggomylibro 9y ago
Elements of Style is very good. It can be a little prescriptive, but it's only 50-odd pages long and surprisingly fun to read.
- eropple 9y agoStrunk and White are prescriptive, but at the same time the book acknowledges that mastery, and its use for effect, can replace the ideas that they generally prescribe. > 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.
- combatentropy 9y ago> mastery, and its use for effect, can replace the ideas that they generally prescribe Is there any field for which this is not true?
- eropple 9y agoIf I was a master electrician, I'd still turn the mains off?
- leggomylibro 9y agoNuclear physics. Just ask Louis Slotin. Oh wait. You can't.
- eropple 9y agoFWIW, I chuckled--this was a good pull!