Every university course syllabus I hand out includes the demands that students format their papers using Chicago style documentation, use footnotes rather than endnotes, and conform their writing to good English prose, consulting The Elements of Style when doubts arise. While I am prepared to do violence on behalf of Chicago, I am less attached to what Ben Yagoda calls “the all-time champ” of writing manuals. In many ways, I include their book as much to function as a badge of old-fashionedness as I do for its (generally sound) advice.
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