The Elements of Style
A work by William Strunk Jr., first published in 1918
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Vigorous writing is concise: a sentence should have no unnecessary words, for the same reason a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts., Concise writing does not mean short sentences or leaving out detail; it means making every word tell.
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William Strunk Jr.
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korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.
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Vigorous writing is concise: a sentence should have no unnecessary words, for the same reason a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. (opens korrents.com)1
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Concise writing does not mean short sentences or leaving out detail; it means making every word tell. (opens korrents.com)1
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