Steven Pinker

The Sense of Style

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A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care? In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the 21st century, Pinker doesn't carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose. In this short, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow,and an ability to savor and reverse-engineer the good prose of…
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  • Дмитрий Безугловhas quoted8 years ago
    some of the clay tablets deciphered from ancient Sumerian include complaints about the deteriorating writing skills of the young
  • Дмитрий Безугловhas quoted8 years ago
    In a panel on sex with four professors,trying to keep related words together won’t help: they already are together.
  • Дмитрий Безугловhas quoted8 years ago
    Syntax, then, is an app that uses a tree of phrases to translate a web of thoughts into a stringof words

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