History's famous word collaborators include Gilbert and Sullivan, Lennon and McCartney, Woodward and Bernstein. But while those pairs were contemporaries, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White worked four ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- History's famous word collaborators include Gilbert and Sullivan, Lennon and McCartney, Woodward and Bernstein. But while those pairs were contemporaries, William Strunk Jr. and E.B.

Before smartphone keyboards, before laptops, PCs and typewriters, before the printing press, there was cursive handwriting. But for many members of generations growing up with electronic devices, ...

"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no ...

But while those pairs were contemporaries, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White worked four decades apart, yet the little known turn-of-the-century Cornell University English professor and his ...