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 +# Strunk & White
 +**Strunk & White** is a guide on writing text in the English language. The guide is contained in a book  titled "The Elements of Style". It was written written by William Strunk Jr. in the 1910s and later expanded by E. B. White in the 1950s.
  
 +The guide is relatively short (~80 pages) compared to definitive guides like "Chicago Manual of Style" (~1000 pages), "America Psychological Association (APA Guide)" (~400 pages). 
 +
 +The following are Wikipedia articles of these style guides:
 +
 + - [The Elements of Style](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style)
 + - [The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicago_Manual_of_Style)
 + - [American Psychological Association (APA)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APA_style)
 +
 +# Overview 
 +
 +## Elementary rules of usage:
 +
 + 1. Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's.
 + 2. In a series of three or more terms with a single conjuction, use a comma after each term except the last
 + 3. Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas
 + 4. Place a comma before a conjunction introducing an independent clause
 + 5. Do not join independent clauses with a comma
 + 6. Do not break sentences in two.
 + 7. Use a colon after an independent clause to introduce a list of particulars, an appositive, an amplification, or an illustrative quotation.
 + 8. Use a dash to set off an abrupt break or interruption and to announce a long appositive or summary.
 + 9. The number of the subject determines the number of the verb.
 + 10. Use the proper case of pronoun.
 + 11. A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammatical subject.
 +
 +## Elementary principles of composition
 +
 + 12. Choose a suitable design and hold to it.
 + 13. Make the paragraph the unit of composition.
 + 14. Use the active voice.
 + 15. Put statements in positive form.
 + 16. Use definite, specific, concrete language.
 + 17. Omit needless words.
 + 18. Avoid a scucession of loose sentences.
 + 19. Express coordinate ideas in similar form.
 + 20. Keep related words together.
 + 21. In summaries, keep to one tense.
 + 22. Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end.
 +
 +## A few matters of form:
 +
 + - Colloquialisms
 + - Exclamations
 + - Headings
 + - Hyphen
 + - Margins
 + - Numerals
 + - Parentheses
 + - Quotations
 + - References
 + - Syllabication
 + - Titles
 +
 +## Words and expressions commonly missused
 +
 + - Aggravate. Irritate
 + - All right
 + - Allude
 + - Allusion
 + - Alternate. Alternative.
 + - Among. Between.
 + - And / or.
 + - Anticipate.
 + - Anybody.
 + - As good or better than.
 + - As to whether.
 + - As yet.
 + - Being.
 + - But.
 + - Can.
 + - Care less.
 + - Case.
 + - Certainly.
 + - Character.
 + - CLaim.
 + - Clever.
 + - Compare.
 + - Consider.
 + - Contact.
 + - Cope.
 + - Currently.
 + - Data.
 + - Different than.
 + - Disinterested.
 + - Dividided into.
 + - Due to.
 + - Each and every one.
 + - Effect.
 + - Enormity.
 + - Enthuse.
 + - Etc.
 + - Fact.
 + - Facility.
 + - Factor.
 + - Farther. Further.
 + - Feature.
 + - Finalize.
 + - Fix.
 + - Flammable.
 + - Folk.
 + - Fortuitous.
 + - Get.
 + - Gratuitous.
 + - He is a man who.
 + - Hopefully.
 + - However.
 + - Illusion.
 + - Imply. Infer.
 + - Importantly.
 + - In regard to.
 + - In the last analysis.
 + - Inside of. Inside.
 + - Insightful.
 + - In terms of.
 + - Interesting.
 + - Irregardless.
 + - -ize.
 + - Kind of.
 + - Lay.
 + - Leave.
 + - Less.
 + - Like.
 + - Line. Along these lines.
 + - Literal. Literally.
 + - Loan.
 + - Meaningful.
 + - Memento.
 + - Most.
 + - Nature.
 + - Nauseous. Nauseated.
 + - Nice.
 + - Nor.
 + - Noun used as verb.
 + - Offputting. Ongoing.
 + - One.
 + - One of the most.
 + - -oriented.
 + - Partially.
 + - Participle for verbal noun.
 + - People.
 + - Personalize.
 + - Possess.
 + - Presently.
 + - Prestigious.
 + - Refer.
 + - Regretful.
 + - Relate.
 + - Respective. Respectively.
 + - Secondly, thirdly, etc.
 + - Shall. Will.
 + - Sort of.
 + - Split infinitive.
 + - State.
 + - Student body.
 + - Than.
 + - Thanking you in advance.
 + - That. Which.
 + - The forseeable future.
 + - The truth.
 + - They. He or She.
 + - This.
 + - Thrust.
 + - Tortuous. Torturous.
 + - Transpire.
 + - Try.
 + - Type.
 + - Unique.
 + - Utilize.
 + - Verbal.
 + - Very.
 + - While.
 + - -wise.
 + - Worth while.
 + - Would.
 +
 +## An approach to style
 +
 + 1. Place yourself in the background.
 + 2. Write in a way that comes naturally.
 + 3. Work from a suitable design.
 + 4. Write with nouns and verbs.
 + 5. Revise and rewrite.
 + 6. Do not overwrite.
 + 7. Do not overstate.
 + 8. Avoid the use of qualifiers.
 + 9. Do not affect a breezy manner.
 + 10. Use orthodox spelling.
 + 11. Do not explain too much.
 + 12. Do not construct awkward adverbs.
 + 13. Make sure the reader knows who is speaking.
 + 14. Avoid fancy words.
 + 15. Do not use dialect unless your ear is good.
 + 16. Be clear.
 + 17. Do not inject opinion.
 + 18. Use figures of speech sparingly.
 + 19. Do not take shortcuts at the cost of clarity.
 + 20. Avoid foreign languages.
 + 21. Prefer the standard to the offbeat.