{"id":892,"date":"2018-07-27T22:25:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T16:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lensq.com\/?p=892"},"modified":"2018-07-27T22:25:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T16:55:57","slug":"book-review-elements-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lensq.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/27\/book-review-elements-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review – The Elements of Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author: William Strunk<\/strong>
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\nWhen I picked up this book, I was looking for some tips on editing. But this ended up to be a grammar book. Rules, rules and more rules. It is known to be a classic book of editing but one needs a lot of practise and multiple sittings of reading to master the content. <\/span>
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\nWhen I was going through the rules, I didn’t even know that some of the rules existed. I found it difficult to remember them too.This book has given me a checklist to edit any content I write.<\/span>
\n<\/span>But the rules are a bit confusing and need to be read over and again to perfect them.<\/span>
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\nThe first block deals with elementary rules of usage. Some of them feel like common sense while a few others made me feel that \u201cWhy was I not taught this back in school?\u201d. The rules need to be revisited over and again to start applying them.<\/span>
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\nA few things which will be learnt in this block are<\/span>
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