miércoles, 9 de septiembre de 2020

'The elements of style' by William Jr. Strunk

This book has taught me a lot of things that will help me in my writing. It is not true that the book does not teach anything to a person contriving to write well. For instance, you have to write a possessive pronoun as a subject of a noun-verb (gerund) when writing in formal style (“they have permitted his walking at the countryside”). Another rule that the book has taught me is avoiding indefinite subjects like “it is”, “there are” or “this is”. Instead of this, you should rewrite the phrase (“There are plenty of medlars in the princess’ garden” = “Plenty of medlars decor the princess garden”). The book contributes with many topics to a person longing to write well.
The book offers an idea about the style which is reformulating the main idea in different manners to emphasize it within a paragraph. Writing the main idea of a text in only one manner does not emphasize it. You should write the main idea in different manners because this idea remains highlighted; because the reader focuses on it, and because the text is more ordered (spoiler alert: “According to the message you are trying to communicate in your writing, you may”, the writer maintains, “relate the body of the paragraph to the topic sentence in one or more of several different ways”). Namely, you have to write the topic you are referring to in several ways so that you highlight this topic.
This book will appeal to those who want to be writers and to those who already are good redactors. This leads us to a conclusion. Reading this book should be attached to practise. Doing it without writing in the manner it teaches is useless.

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