: Re: Writing style before Elements of Style I am looking for the representative references on writing style in English that would pre-date Strunk and White's The Elements of Style (possibly in the

The Wikipedia history of campaigns against singular they gives quite a few examples of stylists from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Note that prescriptions of language such as these rarely matched what common people actually said and wrote, and arguably had sexist motivations (for the particular case of third person pronouns). If you want to match common style your best strategy would be to immerse yourself in works from that era.

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: How do I make a contract with multiple authors Someone suggested that I should make a question on this. I am making a book with multiple authors and we're all under 18 and I'm wondering how

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