The Elements of Style A Book by William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White www.gutenberg.org Choose a suitable design and hold to itMake the paragraph the unit of compositionUse the active voicePut statements in positive formSpecific, definite, concrete+9 More The Elements of Typographic StyleThe Elements of Graphing DataThe Sense of StyleThe superficial aspects of what someone else is doing writingcommunication
Perilous to be sure It would not be clear where the boundary of sanctioned speech lay until an attempt had been made to cross it and that attempt had failed. Such efforts Wittgenstein regarded with benevolence. He treated them as reconnaissance expeditions, perilous to be sure, but well worth the effort expended on them. wordsexplorationspeech