William Strunk, Professor at Cornell, wrote his famous Little
Book on good grammar and writing to simplify the subject for
students far and wide. His famous motto was, "Omit needless words." This
unabridged version follows this motto and can be listened to in just 60
minutes!

This is the original "Little Book," without add ons by later
writers. This is a treasure to writers because it "omit(s)" needless
words" and subject matter Professor Strunk did not believe was core to
better writing. The brevity encourages relistening to deepen one's
knowledge of the subject, the point made by Professor Strunk to his
students: "the knowledge comes from rereading" or in our case,
relistening. This unabridged version has 25 tracks: 1. Preface. 2.
Introduction.. 3. Elementary Rules of Usage. 4. Form the Possessive
Singular of Nouns with 's. 5. Three or More Terms with a Single
Conjunction. 6. Enclose Parenthetic Expressions Between Commas. 7. Place
a Comma before and or but. 8. Do Not Join Independent Clauses by a
Comma. 9. Do Not Break Sentences in Two. 10. A Participial Phrase at the
Beginning of a Sentence. 11. Divide Words at Line-ends. 12. Elementary
Principles of Composition. 13. Make the Paragraph the Unit of
Composition. 14. Begin a Paragraph with a Topic Sentence. 15. Use the
Active Voice. 16. Put Statements in Positive Form. 17. Omit Needless
Words. 18. Avoid a Succession of Loose Sentences. 19. Express
Co-ordinate Ideas in a Similar Form. 20. Keep Related Words Together.
21. In Summaries Keep to One Tense. 22. Keep the Emphatic Word of a
Sentence at the End. 23. A Few Matters of Form. 24. Words and
Expressions Commonly Misused. 25. 56 Words Commonly
Misspelled.