what others are saying

For the most part I believe the class is having the same thoughts that go along with mine. Chase mentions in his blog that I thought about too. Williams book was focused on why things should be done that way when Strunk just told you what to do. I also agree with Chase's blog when he talks about how Strunk dealt with grammar more than Williams did. But I have to disagree with him on the fact that Williams was easier to read and understand. For me, personally, sometimes I had to reread what Williams wrote to make sense of it and I could not read it for very long with out skimming or losing focus. Not that Strunk and White was a page-turner, either. I just could force myself to pay attention more to Strunk because his ideas were short and to the point which is what I like to see when I'm reading about style. On the other hand I liked that Williams did explain his reasoning. If he hadn't I would have been even more lost reading his book. Like Chase, I, sometimes, too need to hear the why in order to do it properly.
This leads me to Rachelle's blog. I felt she made some interesting points that I did not make in my blogs. Like her I found Strunk's rule to omit needless words to be good. But like Rachelle, I too didn't really get how to do that until I read Williams and he explained how it could be done in depth. At times like that I like Williams more that Strunk and White. But then again Williams and Strunk focused on two very different things. Strunk did not reaaly go beyond discussing grammar like Williams did. While I liked and learned more from Williams I did not like when he got into other elements of style. Then it got more boring than Strunk and White.
But other than a few differences I felt that most bloggers were writing the same opinions that I had about the two books.