This handbook of grammatical and stylistic guidance for writers of American English had been written and published in 1918 by William Strunk, Jr., one of White's professors at Cornell.

* The Elements of Style ( with William Strunk, Jr .) ( 1959, republished 1972, 1979, 1999, 2005 )

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The Elements of Style ( 1918 ), also known as Strunk & White, by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B.

Cornell University English professor William Strunk, Jr., wrote The Elements of Style in 1918, and privately published it in 1919, for in-house use at the university.

In The Elements of Style ( 1918 ), William Strunk concentrated on specific questions of usage — and the cultivation of good writing — with the recommendation " Make every word tell "; hence, the 17th principle of composition is the simple instruction: " Omit needless words.

The fourth edition of The Elements of Style ( 2000 ), published fifty-four years after the death of William Strunk Jr., omits his stylistic advice about masculine pronouns: " unless the antecedent is or must be feminine "; and, in its place, editor E. B.

* The Elements of Style: A Style Guide for Writers ( 2005 ), by William Strunk, ISBN 0-975-22980-X

* The Elements of Style Illustrated ( 2005 ), by William Strunk Jr., E. B.

* The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. & How To Speak And Write Correctly, by Joseph Devlin ( 2006 ), BN Publishing, ISBN 9-562-91263-9

William Strunk Jr. ( 1 July 1869 – 26 September 1946 ) was a professor of English at Cornell University and author of the The Elements of Style ( 1918 ), which, after being revised and enlarged by his former student E. B.

Strunk was born and reared in Cincinnati, Ohio, the eldest of four surviving children of William and Ella Garretson Strunk.

William Strunk retired from Cornell in 1937.

* The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E. B.

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William Strunk Jr. advocated concision in The Elements of Style ( 1918 ):

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Although some purveyors of usage advice, including George Orwell ( see Politics and the English Language, 1946 ) and William Strunk, Jr. and E. B.

Two years later, in 1918, in The Elements of Style Cornell University Professor of English William Strunk, Jr. warned against excessive use of the passive voice:

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