William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White
Longman
“Buy it, study it, enjoy it. It’s as timeless as a book can be in our age of volubility.”
— The New York Times
“No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will help any writer more than this persistent little volume.”
— The Boston Globe
“White is one of the best stylists and most lucid minds in this country. What he says and his way of saying it are equally rewarding.”
— The Wall Street Journal
“The book remains a nonpareil: direct, correct, and delightful.”
— The New Yorker
“. . . Should be the daily companion of anyone who writes for a living, and for that matter, anyone who writes at all.”
— Greensboro (N.C.) Daily News
“This excellent book, which should go off to college with every freshman, is recognized as the best book of its kind we have.”
— St. Paul Dispatch – Pioneer Press
“It’s hard to imagine an engineer or a manager who doesn’t need to express himself in English prose as part of his job. It’s also hard to imagine a writer who will not be improved by a liberal application of The Elements of Style.”
— Telephone Engineer & Management
1. Elementary Rules of Usage
– comma(,), dash(-), semicolon(;), colon(:) 등의 용법
– 문장 구성시 주의할 점 (수의 일치, 정확한 대명사 사용 등)
2. Elementary Principles of Composition
– 문단의 구성과 작문의 주요원칙
– 수동태와 부정형, 모호한 표현, 중복되는 표현, 초점없이 길게 늘어나는 문장의 자제
– 강조하고자 하는 내용은 문장의 뒷부분에 배치
3. A Few Matters of Form
– 구어체 자제, 제목, 여백, 숫자표기, 괄호, 인용부호, 각주 등의 처리
4. Words and Expressions Commonly Misused
– 자주 틀리는 표현들
5. An Approach to Style
– 자신만의 Style을 갖기 위해 필요한 요소들
– 자연스럽게 시작하고, 과장하거나 필요없이 길게 쓰거나 화려한 어휘/외래어를 자주 쓰지 말 것
– 명사와 동사로 글을 쓰라 (형용사, 부사에 의존하지 말 것)
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