The Strunk, William 1869-1946 creator text utu 2011 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk is a style guide first published in 1920. This compact manual distills the essentials of clear English prose into rules about grammar, punctuation, composition, and word usage. Strunk's original "little book" urged writers to omit needless words and embrace brevity. Later enlarged by his former student E. B. White in 1959, it became the influential writing guide known as "Strunk & White," selling millions of copies and shaping generations of American writers with its prescriptive approach to craft. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style Release date is 2011-08-18 Produced by Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Original publication data not identified English language -- Rhetoric English language -- Style Report writing PE Original publication data not identified 20017753 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37134 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37134 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133839.0 37134