The Elements of Style (Strunk & White) is an American English Writing Style guide.
The experience of its writer has been that once past the essentials, students profit most by individual instruction based on the problems of their own work, and that each instructor has his own body of theory, which he may prefer to that offered by any textbook..
The book thus covers only a small portion of the field of English style.
Similarly, it gives in Chapter III only those principles of the paragraph and the sentence which are of the widest application.
In accordance with this plan it lays down three rules for the use of the comma, instead of a score or more, and one for the use of the semicolon, in the belief that these four rules provide for all the internal punctuation that is required by nineteen sentences out of twenty.
It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.
This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.
It is one of the most influential and best-known prescriptive treatments of English grammar and usage in the United States.
The Elements of Style (Strunk & White) is an American English Writing Style guide
