Points for Style
Points for Style
Posted on: Saturday, 5 July 2008, 03:00 CDT
By Holtz, Shel
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Points for style bookmark While not especially well organized, this slim
volume offers solid guidance on handling Web-related style issues about
the book The Elements of Internet Style: The New Rules of Creating
Valuable Content for Today's Readers by EEI Press Editors EEI Press (with
Allworth Press), 2007 162 pages I have to confess to being a bit
confounded by The Elements of Internet Style: The New Rules of Creating
Valuable Content for Today's Readers. There's an expectation that any book
leveraging the strength of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style will
mirror the organizational and structural approach taken by that ubiquitous
reference guide. The Elements of Internet Style, though, is an odd mixture
of narrative text and Strunk-ish listings.
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Nevertheless, The Elements of Internet Style has found a home with the
other reference books I keep within easy reach. Those chapters that do
provide quick access to preferred styles have enough value to earn a spot
with the Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage, Words into Type, The
Elements of Grammar, The Elements of Editing and Fowler's Modern English
Usage, not to mention my well-worn copy of Strunk and White.
I do wish the book were organized to make it easier to find a rule. For
example, suggestions on how to deal with abbreviations, currency, dates,
numbers and units of measure appear in a catchall chapter called "The
Rules Used to Matter. What Now?" So do rules on electronic citations (how,
in print, would you display the citation for a web site or a CD-ROM?). The
book does have a comprehensive index, which addresses some of the
problems. Nevertheless, I would have preferred it to be as easy as it is
to find advice on using the active voice in "Principles of Composition" in
Strunk and White.
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