ECONOMICS 490
SENIOR SEMINAR
A website on the History of Economic thought
from the New School, a University in New York City. It has Information on past economists and
digitized versions of major texts
William Strunk jr. The Elements of Style
This could be called ‘Writing for dummies and a reference for the rest of us’ Browsing through section II Elementary Principles of Composition might be very rewarding.
Strunk’s particular writing style is old fashioned. Note in particular the lack of gender neutral language. Nonetheless, the principles remain sound. For example, the vast majority of students would benefit from reading Section II the Active Voice where he shows weak sentence construction and strong sentence construction.