On Jul 27, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Nat Russo <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah I was at B&N the other day and had a copy of each in my hand. I'll > probably wind up buying the Chicago manual at some point as well, but I > figured I'd get more immediate bang for the buck from Strunk & White. > > O
Save your money. Chicago is only useful if you're editing. It's the default style book for any university press that doesn't have it's own. Most of the big and old schools, Harvard, Berkley, etc. have their own in house style book. Same with most major publishers. Random House, HarperCollins, etc. But Chicago is used by lots of universities and publishers that don't have their own. If you take the time to look through it, you'll realize a huge portion of it is dedicated to preparation of manuscript for publication. Strunk & White is all a writer needs. On those rare instances you have a question you can't find the answer for in there, hit the internet or realize it's probably a trivial question. Best, R.E.F. ---- www.crydee.com Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity.
