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Elements of Style

Sunday, May 3, 2009

 

Elements of Style

My high school technical writing teacher, and adviser to the school paper, told me to read this book. According to her, it was a sort of Bible when it comes to writing. I tried reading it in high school, but got bored by it.

I was finally able to finish the book (here in Japan, no less!). It was mainly because I saw it in the library and went, “Oh! That’s a book I recognize!” Well, it’s not really that they didn’t have a wide selection of English books. In fact, they had a lot! From Harry Potter, to Lord of the Rings, Bridget Jones, Roald Dahl, and more. It was just that I don’t often see that book on library shelves.

It was what it claimed itself to be — a concise book preaching about brevity and advising the writer in us to “make every word tell.” And as much as I would love to follow that book, I thrive on the unnecessary. I had succumbed to what the book cautioned about — loving the sound that the keyboard makes. Harhar.

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Tiffany Chua a student from UP diliman, studying so she can learn how to read your mind. Who loves yellow and orange, and has a blatant love affair with Hello Kitty. Oh! And she also loves wasabi -- which disgust people.


And while she loves the study of Psychology, she's currently an exchange student at Nagoya Gakuin University so that she can learn how to watch Japanese dramas without the subtitles. 

 

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