usage

• Elements of Style, The by William Strunk Jr., Elwyn Brooks White, Charles Osgood (1979)

  [7/10]

  "Reading Strunk and White frequently will help keep your mind on track -- subconsciously alerting you to possible problems in your writing. Just be sure you know enough modern usage to be able to discern how much weight to give each rule."

• Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults by Ambrose Bierce (1986)

  [3/10]

  "I would not recommend this book to any looking for a modern usage guide. In fact, I don't see a good reason to recommend Write it Write, except to linguists studying changes in English."

  Average score: 5.00