The Elements of Style (Annotated)

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. Dorothy Parker once wrote: "If you have young friends who aspire to become writers, the second biggest favor you can do is present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first, of course, is to shoot them now, while they are happy. "Many Americans, who believe they can be taught to write, will turn to The Elements of Style as the indispensable road map through a desert without traces of rotating words. From the Great War to the Cold War, this little book, was only the attempt of a university professor to reduce "the great tangle of custom-made English rhetoric and write its rules and principles at the tip of a pin."Those are the words of EB White, who, after having been taught English at Cornell University by Professor William Strunk Jr, was commissioned in 1957 by Macmillan editors to review Strunk's printed style book on style for General reader and the university market.