The Elements of Style

  1. Read The Elements of Style, Part V: An Approach to Style, #s 1-21. This section moves you through a list of reminders about what to do and what not to do to make your writing as clear and as powerful as possible. Choose five of those approaches/reminders to apply in your upcoming paper on The Myths of Progress on the Tech Frontier. What this means is that you will practice these approaches from The Elements of Style in your very own writing. When you use one of the approaches, I would like you to underline the place where you used it. This way, I can see exactly how you are applying the skill. At the bottom of the last page of your paper, please explain which approaches you used and why.