The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. & How To Speak And Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin - Special Edition

by William Strunk Jr.

The Elements of Style (1918) is a prescriptive American English writing style guide comprising eight "elementary rules of usage", ten "elementary principles of composition", "a few matters of form", a list of forty-nine "words and expressions commonly misused", and a list of fifty-seven "words often misspelled".

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HOW TO SPEAK AND WRITE CORRECTLY (1910) by JOSEPH DEVLIN, M.A.
Cover the topics of Requirements of Speech, Essentials of English Grammar, Arrangement of Words in a Sentence, SLANG, Writing For Newspapers, etc.

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Genres: Writing, Nonfiction

300 pages, MP3 CD

First published May 2, 2007

About the author

William Strunk Jr. was a professor of English at Cornell University and, together with E.B. White, author of The Elements of Style (1918).

Reviews

[Lim Yi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love it! A book that makes me realised the bad habits I had with English speaking and writing, not too late to change!

[Marcia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This ultimate guide to proper English form and function.