writing-clearly-and-concisely

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Tool: elements-of-style.md [1/13] Description: # The Elements of Style (1918) _Public domain text by William Strunk Jr._ ## Contents - [I. Introductory](#i-introductory) - [II. Elementary Rules Of Usage](#ii-elementary-rules-of-usage) - [Rule 1.

Tool: elements-of-style.md [2/13] Description: for Sardinia. Other illustrations may be found in sentences quoted under Rules 4, 5, 6, 7, 16, and 18. The writer should be careful not to set off independent clauses by commas: see under Rule 5.

Tool: elements-of-style.md [3/13] Description: the world and lived in half a dozen countries. In both these examples, the first period should be replaced by a comma, and the following word begun with a small letter. It is permissible to make an emphatic word or expression serve the purpose of a sentence and to punctuate it accordingly: Again and again he called out. No reply. The writer must, however, be certain that the emphasis is warranted, and that he will not be suspected of a mere blunder

Tool: elements-of-style.md [4/13] Description: in the topic sentence; and \(c\) the final sentence either emphasizes the thought of the topic sentence or states some important consequence. Ending with a digression, or with an unimportant detail, is particularly to be avoided. If the paragraph forms part of a larger composition, its relation to what precedes, or its function as a part of the whole, may need to be expressed.

Tool: elements-of-style.md [5/13] Description: My first visit to Boston will always be remembered, it becomes indefinite: is it the writer, or some person undisclosed, or the world at large, that will always remember this visit? This rule does not, of course, mean that the writer should entirely discard the passive voice, which is frequently convenient and sometimes necessary. The dramatists of the Restoration are little esteemed to-day. Modern readers have little esteem for the dramatists of th

Tool: elements-of-style.md [6/13] Description: rode with round the terrace—all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least, and those which end the poem, Notice Neptune, though, Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me. These words call up pictures.

Tool: elements-of-style.md [7/13] Description: Avoid a succession of loose sentences This rule refers especially to loose sentences of a particular type, those consisting of two co-ordinate clauses, the second introduced by a conjunction or relative. Although single sentences of this type may be unexceptionable (see under Rule 4), a series soon becomes monotonous and tedious. An unskilful writer will sometimes construct a whole paragraph of sentences of this kind, using as connectives *and*, *bu

Tool: elements-of-style.md [8/13] Description: treated in a Bessemer converter, is changed into steel. | By treatment in a Bessemer converter, cast iron is changed into steel. | The objection is that the interposed phrase or clause needlessly interrupts the natural order of the main clause.

Tool: elements-of-style.md [9/13] Description: in the second example. The effectiveness of the periodic sentence arises from the prominence which it gives to the main statement. Four centuries ago, Christopher Columbus, one of the Italian mariners whom the decline of their own republics had put at the service of the world and of adventure, seeking for Spain a westward passage to the Indies as a set-off against the achievements of Portuguese discoverers, lighted on America.

Tool: elements-of-style.md [10/13] Description: compared to a pilgrimage, to a drama, to a battle; Congress may be compared with the British Parliament. Paris has been compared to ancient Athens; it may be compared with modern London. **Consider.** Not followed by *as* when it means “believe to be.” “I consider him thoroughly competent.” Compare, “The lecturer considered Cromwell first as soldier and second as administrator,” where “considered” means “examined” or “discussed.” **Data.** A plural

Tool: elements-of-style.md [11/13] Description: were less than a hundred,” where the round number *a hundred* is something like a collective noun, and *less* is thought of as meaning a less quantity or amount. **Like.** Not to be misused for *as*. *Like* governs nouns and pronouns; before phrases and clauses the equivalent word is *as*.

Tool: elements-of-style.md [12/13] Description: | Original | Revision | | --- | --- | | Another phase of the subject | Another point (another question) | **Possess.** Not to be used as a mere substitute for *have* or *own*. | Original | Revision | | --- | --- | | He possessed great courage.

Tool: elements-of-style.md [13/13] Description: while to telegraph?” | Original | Revision | | --- | --- | | His books are not worth while.