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Is it similar to Elements of Style in its focus? (That book, of course, had the most perfect phrasing: "Omit needless words.")
by unalone 18y ago
Is it similar to Elements of Style in its focus? (That book, of course, had the most perfect phrasing: "Omit needless words.")
- gabrielroth 18y agoAccording to my recollection, there's less of the nuts-&-bolts-of-grammar and more about substance. E.g. Zinsser spends a lot of time arguing that you have to have a deep understanding of a subject, and be able to think well about it, to write well about it. Which ... sure, no doubt. But, um, not that helpful? (At least not to me at the time.) It's been a long time, though, and the book apparently has many fans on this board who surely know it much better than I do. But no, less technical and more discursive than Strunk & White.