There is an important and influential type of public writing that scholars have described as the “classic style.” The classic text to teach this style is titled “Clear and Simple as the Truth,” ...

History's famous word collaborators include Gilbert and Sullivan, Lennon and McCartney, Woodward and Bernstein. But while those pairs were contemporaries, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White worked four ...

In the fall of 1974, a young scholar named John Trimble at the University of Texas at Austin was summoned into the office of a senior professor on the English department’s executive committee. The ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- History's famous word collaborators include Gilbert and Sullivan, Lennon and McCartney, Woodward and Bernstein. But while those pairs were contemporaries, William Strunk Jr. and E.B.

I made the mistake of emailing Jim Hale an opinion. I sent him a mewling defense of the classic writing guide “The Elements of Style” by Strunk & White the day after his column questioned its utility.

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“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no ...