![]() Filled with examples of great and gruesome modern prose, The Sense of Style shows how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right, that is also informed by science. In The Sense of Style, he asks why so much writing is so bad. 30, 2014 Yet another how-to book on writing Indeed, but this is one of the best to come along in many years, a model of intelligent signposting and syntactical comportment. Steven Pinker, an experimental psychologist at Harvard, cognitive scientist and linguist, has been named as one of the world’s most influential intellectuals, and has written ten books including The Language Instinct and The Better Angels of our Nature. ![]() ![]() Pinker applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose. THE THINKING PERSON’S GUIDE TO WRITING IN THE 21ST CENTURY by Steven Pinker RELEASE DATE: Sept. Steven Pinker, answers these questions and more. 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 people write badly on purpose, to obfuscate and impress? Have dictionaries abandoned their responsibility to safeguard correct usage? Do kids today even care about good writing? In his latest book the Harvard linguist, cognitive scientist, bestselling author ( The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, and The Better Angels of Our Nature) and chair of the Usage Panel of The American Heritage Dictionary, Dr. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Persons Guide to Writing in the 21st Century is a 2014 English style guide written by cognitive scientist, linguist and popular science author Steven Pinker. ![]()
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