http://www.openeducation.net/2009/04/16/is-nothing-sacred-taking-apart-the-elements-of-style/ Free Education for All Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:26:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.openeducation.net/2009/04/16/is-nothing-sacred-taking-apart-the-elements-of-style/comment-page-1/#comment-6567 David Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:20:41 +0000 http://www.openeducation.net/?p=1835#comment-6567 I like EoS for the reminders that it gives. Maybe it shouldn't be a textbook for grammar, but who really expects it to be definitive? For me it's a great checklist. If I need to be technically correct, I go somewhere else. I like EoS for the reminders that it gives. Maybe it shouldn’t be a textbook for grammar, but who really expects it to be definitive? For me it’s a great checklist. If I need to be technically correct, I go somewhere else.

]]> http://www.openeducation.net/2009/04/16/is-nothing-sacred-taking-apart-the-elements-of-style/comment-page-1/#comment-6554 Joe Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:36:06 +0000 http://www.openeducation.net/?p=1835#comment-6554 That was very interesting. It's easier to phase out Dale's cone than "The Elements of Style". That was very interesting. It’s easier to phase out Dale’s cone than “The Elements of Style”.

]]> http://www.openeducation.net/2009/04/16/is-nothing-sacred-taking-apart-the-elements-of-style/comment-page-1/#comment-6551 Kippi Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:31:27 +0000 http://www.openeducation.net/?p=1835#comment-6551 Oh, stick-in-the-mud! Perhaps I first picked up EoS as required reading, but I don't keep it around to check my grammar. I'll use it to take a break from writing -- it makes me think, revise, re-read -- and remember that a page can be delightful and transporting as well as informative. Like a sunny spring day, revisiting a ride on the best swing in the county. Oh, stick-in-the-mud! Perhaps I first picked up EoS as required reading, but I don’t keep it around to check my grammar. I’ll use it to take a break from writing — it makes me think, revise, re-read — and remember that a page can be delightful and transporting as well as informative. Like a sunny spring day, revisiting a ride on the best swing in the county.

]]> http://www.openeducation.net/2009/04/16/is-nothing-sacred-taking-apart-the-elements-of-style/comment-page-1/#comment-6546 academhack » Blog Archive » Teaching Carnival Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:24:38 +0000 http://www.openeducation.net/?p=1835#comment-6546 [...] to issue a 50th anniversary edition, but also a good reason to debunk the usefulness of this text, Open Education also piles on. (I am always a fan of going after sacred [...] [...] to issue a 50th anniversary edition, but also a good reason to debunk the usefulness of this text, Open Education also piles on. (I am always a fan of going after sacred [...]

]]> http://www.openeducation.net/2009/04/16/is-nothing-sacred-taking-apart-the-elements-of-style/comment-page-1/#comment-6544 Rachel Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:31:13 +0000 http://www.openeducation.net/?p=1835#comment-6544 Why should one be a syntactician in order to write a book on writing STYLE? A syntactician would call this a correct sentence: 'The horse raced past the barn fell', while Strunk and White might just prefer that the writer be a bit clearer than that! Why should one be a syntactician in order to write a book on writing STYLE? A syntactician would call this a correct sentence: ‘The horse raced past the barn fell’, while Strunk and White might just prefer that the writer be a bit clearer than that!

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