经常被误用的单词和表达方式（D 到 Z） Highlights from Chapter 4 <<The Elements of Style>> by Strunk and White 21.Data:Like strata, phenomena, and media, data is a plural and is best used with a plural verb. The word, however, is slowly gaining acceptance as a singular. 22.Different than:Here logic supports established usage: one thing differs from another, hence, different […]

经常被误用的单词和表达方式（A 到 C） Highlights from Chapter 4 <<The Elements of Style>> by Strunk and White 1. Aggravate: “to add to” an already troublesome or vexing matter or condition; Irritate: “to vex” or “to annoy” or “to chafe.” 2. Allude: suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at. Elude: evade or escape from (a danger, enemy,

一些写作形式问题 Highlights from Chapter 3 <<The Elements of Style>> by Strunk and White 1. Headings: 1) Leave a blank line, or its equivalent in space, after the heading. 2) Omit the period after a title or heading. 2. Hyphen: 1) When two or more words are combined to form a compound adjective, a hyphen is

写作基本原理   Highlights from Chapter 2 <<The Elements of Style>> by Strunk and White 1.Choose a suitable design and hold to it. Planning must be a deliberate prelude to writing. The first principle of composition, is to foresee or determine the shape of what is to come and pursue that shape. The more clearly the writer

基本语法   Highlights from Chapter 1 <<The Elements of Style>> by Strunk and White 1.Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding ‘s. Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Charles’s friendBurns’s poemsthe witch’s malice A common error is to write it’s for its, or vice versa. The first is a contraction, meaning ” it is.”

词语与句子用法   Highlights from Chapter 10 <<Style – Toward Clarity and Grace>> by Joseph Williams 1.Style, Grammar, and Choice We should adopt the worst-case policy: follow all the rules all the time because somewhere, sometime, someone might criticize us for something beginning a sentence with and or ending it with up. 2. First Group of Real

长度   Highlights from Chapter 8 <<Style – Toward Clarity and Grace>> by Joseph Williams 1.A competent writer must know how to manage a long sentence gracefully, how to make it as clear and as vigorous as a series of short ones. It is not length alone, or number of clauses alone, that we ought to

简洁 Highlights from Chapter 7 <<Style – Toward Clarity and Grace>> by Joseph Williams 1.To write clearly, we have to know not only how to manage the flow of ideas but also how to express them concisely. These two principles are easier to state than to follow.1) Usually, compress what you mean into the fewest

连贯性   Highlights from Chapter 5 <<Style – Toward Clarity and Grace>> by Joseph Williams 1. Form Beyond Sentences: Five Principles1) A cohesive paragraph has consistent topic strings.2) A cohesive paragraph has another set of strings running through it that we will call thematic strings.3) A cohesive paragraph introduces new topic and thematic strings in a

强调   Highlights from Chapter 4 <<Style – Toward Clarity and Grace>> by Joseph Williams 1.If you begin a sentence well, the end will almost take care of itself.So the first step toward a style that is clear, direct, and coherent lies in how you manage the first few words of every sentence. 2.When you utter