Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style" remains very popular, but over the years I've come to be persuaded that it is, at least, badly flawed - especially if viewed as a set of rules (which it ...

In the classic primer that Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles) names her dishy first novel after, Strunk & White note, "Style not only reveals the spirit of the man ...

There’s one piece of advice few writing coaches would quibble with: Keep it simple. Simple wording speeds readers’ and listeners’ mental processing. It coaxes them to hang onto your words. Researchers ...