Comments on: Sentence Structure: Are you Following Stale Advice?

By: Links from the feedreader. January 25, 2008 » Anthology of Ideas

Links from the feedreader. January 25, 2008 » Anthology of Ideas — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:02:03 +0000

[...] Sentence Structure: Are you Following Stale Advice? Strunk and White, in the Elements of Style, recommend that the words you would most like to emphasize ought to be left until the end of the sentence. A sort of “save the best for last” method. As bloggers, should we be following standards like these? Or are blogs, as a medium, the opportunity to create all new style elements? [...]

By: Content Writing Advice « Nice, Smile

Content Writing Advice « Nice, Smile — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:02:19 +0000

[...] Sentence Structure: Are you Following Stale Advice? The advice here sure isn’t stale. There is even some good advice on phrase emphasis. [...]

By: --Deb

--Deb — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:39:26 +0000

What can I really say except, "Yes!" I think it's important to know the rules before you choose how to break them . . . whether it's a curfew, a recipe, or a paragraph. If you don't know what's right and what's wrong, how can you judge the impact of ignoring a rule? (Or, even more, the impact of repeatedly breaking rules because you didn't know that it was a rule in the first place.)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:21:23 +0000

thanx for ur article. was highly informative.i especially liked the line "The advice given by Strunk and White to save the best for last" very much. guess i will do it next time onwards.