Sentences with phrase «style rule in a book»

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In his classic book The Elements of Style, Professor William Strunk Jr. whittled down the art of powerful writing to a few basic rules.

Lightfoot (1658) summed the need of one seeking true understanding (and not interpretation) up well: «For, first, when all the books of the New Testament were written by Jews, and among Jews, and unto them; and when all the discourses made there, were made in like manner by Jews, and to Jews, and among them; I was always fully persuaded, as of a thing past all doubting, that that Testament could not but everywhere taste of and retain the Jews» style, idiom, form, and rule of speaking.»

The book is styled to look like a J. Crew catalog and aimed at working moms trying to get their kids to eat stupid vegetables, but it is wildly deceptive in that it promotes a ludicrously horseshit vegan diet that rules out pretty much everything.

Style Tip: Colour - blocking is back and we've got the rule book on how to work the trend in 2017.

That age - old rule does not exist in my style book!

A genre film is more about how the film works within the rules of the genre, how it inverts them, and how the plot and style and overall human bits and pieces splash out onto the screen (more a more succinct Ebert quote, «It's not what the film is about, but how it is about it») and by that test, Kick - Ass is pretty damn successful in my book.

While acknowledging that many students will eventually modify some of the rules to adapt to their learning styles or lifestyle preferences, Gauld claims, «I have never encountered anyone who went wrong following these five rules as they are presented in this book.»

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Unless you're actually a professional book editor, you probably don't know that the American book publishing industry uses the grammar rules dictated by the Chicago Manual of Style, not the MLA Style used in academia or the AP Stylebook used in journalism.

The second important requirement for such programmes is correct mapping of text (hyphenation in accordance with the rules of your language, convenient display of footnotes, supporting of different styles that are used in the titles, epigraphs, quotations, footnotes, the main text and opportunity to tune them for your covenience (read about parametres of fonts in details in section «Fonts of electonic books»).

Think for a moment about these self - published books from times past: Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell's Principia Mathematica, Beatrix Potter's The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac, Charles Dickens» A Christmas Carol, D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, Galileo's Starry Messenger, Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Henry Martyn Robert's Robert's Rules of Order, Irma Rombauer's The Joy of Cooking, James Joyce's Ulysses, John James Audubon's The Birds of America, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Noah Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language, Thomas Paine's Common Sense, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, William Strunk and E. B. White's The Elements of Style, and — yes — Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

It's all too easy to label a game bad if it doesn't utilize the same graphical prowess as its contemporaries, but you can't judge one game by another's rule book; the graphical style of Lovely Planet is in keeping with the game's central play between the fiendishly simple and the terrifyingly complex.

Geared towards helping you evolve different typographic styles, the book contains none of the technical jargon or tired old rules found in traditional tutorials but is packed with practical techniques and iconic examples.

Punctuation, to most people, is a set of arbitrary and rather silly rules you find in printers» style books and in the back pages of school grammars.