Strunk, White, (and Kalman) to the Rescue

My late night revision process needs all the help it can get. The grammar rules in this book are helpful, but the style diatribes are indispensable.

“It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader will usually find in the sentence some compensating merit, attained at the cost of the violation. Unless he is certain of doing as well, he will probably do best to follow the rules.”

-William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style (illustrated)

Here’s to effectively breaking the rules! (notice I didn’t use affectively?)

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Candice Thompson is a Brooklyn-based artist and writer. Prior to dancing with the Milwaukee Ballet Company and ad hoc Ballet, she trained with Kee Juan Han at the School of Ballet Arizona and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She founded LOLAstretch Dancewear in 2000 and has designed costumes for a variety of theater and dance companies across the country. She is currently pursuing a masters degree in Literary Nonfiction at Columbia University’s Creative Writing Program.

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