* The Elements of Programming Style, with P. J. Plauger

* The Elements of Programming Style ( 1974, 1978 with PJ Plauger )

He was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide, The Elements of Style, which is commonly known as " Strunk & White.

In 1959, White edited and updated The Elements of Style.

The complete history of The Elements of Style is detailed in Mark Garvey's Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style.

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

But after finding that his book On Writing had more useful and observant things to say about the craft than any book since Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, I have gotten over my own snobbery.

Strunk and White's The Elements of Style notes both uses.

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

In 2011, Time magazine listed The Elements of Style as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923.

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.

Macmillan and Company publishers subsequently commissioned White to revise the 41-year-old text of The Elements of Style ( 1918 ) for a 1959 edition ( Strunk had died in 1946 ).

The history of this writing manual is told in Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White ’ s The Elements of Style ( 2009 ), by Mark Garvey.

He also produced the second ( 1972 ) and third ( 1979 ) editions of The Elements of Style, by which time the book's length had extended to eighty-five pages.

The third edition of The Elements of Style ( 1979 ) features 54 points: a list of common word-usage errors ; 11 rules of punctuation and grammar ; 11 principles of writing ; 11 matters of form, and 21 reminders for a better style, in Chapter V. The final reminder, the 21st, " Prefer the standard to the offbeat ", is thematically integral to the subject of The Elements of Style, yet does stand as a discrete essay about writing lucid prose.

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.

Five years later, the fourth edition was re-published as The Elements of Style Illustrated ( 2005 ), by the designer Maira Kalman.

* The Elements of Style: Full text of Strunk's 1918 edition

* The Elements of Style: The LibriVox audiobook version of Strunk's 1918 edition

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.

In 1918, Strunk privately published The Elements of Style for the use of his Cornell students, who gave it its nickname, " the little book.

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

* The Elements of Style: full text of Strunk's 1918 edition

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:

Hegel, in his Elements of the Philosophy of Right ( 1820 ), gave it a philosophical justification that concurred with evolving contemporary political theory and the Protestant Christian view of natural law.

The Elements of Classical Architecture ( Classical America Series in Art and Architecture ), W. W. Norton & Co., 2001, ISBN 0-393-73051-4

Antoine Lavoisier, in his famed 1789 Traité Élémentaire de Chimie ( Elements of Chemistry ), refers to Bergmann ’ s work and discusses the concept of elective affinities or attractions.

* Heath, Thomas L. ( 1908 ), " Euclid and the Traditions About Him ", in Euclid, Elements ( Thomas L. Heath, ed.

* Elements ( band ), 1980s – 90s American jazz ensemble

* Elements ( Roger Glover album ), 1978

* The Elements ( Second Person album ), 2007

* The Elements ( Joe Henderson album ), 1973

* " The Elements " ( song ), by Tom Lehrer

* Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield ( video ), video / DVD edition

The earliest surviving description of the Euclidean algorithm is in Euclid's Elements ( c. 300 BC ), making it one of the oldest numerical algorithms still in common use.

Euclid ( c. 325-265 BC ), of Alexandria, probably a student of one of Plato ’ s students, wrote a treatise in 13 books ( chapters ), titled The Elements of Geometry, in which he presented geometry in an ideal axiomatic form, which came to be known as Euclidean geometry.

The Elements began with definitions of terms, fundamental geometric principles ( called axioms or postulates ), and general quantitative principles ( called common notions ) from which all the rest of geometry could be logically deduced.

In London, in a used bookstore, he came across Gustav Fechner's book Elemente der Psychophysik ( Elements of Psychophysics ), which spurred him to conduct his famous memory experiments.

Leslie did propose a hollow Earth in his 1829 Elements of Natural Philosophy ( pp. 449 – 453 ), but does not mention interior suns.

Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon has the grail as one of four objects symbolizing the four Elements: the Grail itself ( water ), the sword Excalibur ( fire ), a dish ( earth ), and a spear or wand ( air ).

Following the French committee's findings, in his Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind ( 1818 ), Dugald Stewart, an influential academic philosopher of the " Scottish School of Common Sense ", encouraged physicians to salvage elements of Mesmerism by replacing the supernatural theory of " animal magnetism " with a new interpretation based upon " common sense " laws of physiology and psychology.

Newman wrote Elements of the topology of plane sets of points ( 1939 ), a definitive work on general topology, and still highly recommended as an undergraduate text.

Neoclassical economics is frequently dated from William Stanley Jevons's Theory of Political Economy ( 1871 ), Carl Menger's Principles of Economics ( 1871 ), and Léon Walras's Elements of Pure Economics ( 1874 – 1877 ).

Elements of classic screwball comedy often found in more recent films which might otherwise simply be classified as romantic comedies include the " battle of the sexes " ( Down with Love, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ), witty repartee ( Down with Love ), and the contrast between the wealthy and the middle class ( You've Got Mail, Two Weeks Notice ).