ABSTRACT
Good writing has a certain foundation on which it is built and a cer tain polish or finish on which it is sold to the buyer. The late E. B. White (Strunk & White, 1979) made an observation in the writer’s lit tle bible, The Elements o f Style, that is worth noting. His Cornell pro fessor, William Strunk, once said, “The best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader will usually find in the sentence some compensating merit, attained at the cost of the violation. Unless he is certain of doing as well, he will probably do best to follow the rules” (p. xvi).
