The Sense of Style: the thinking person's guide to writing in the 21st century
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TextPublication details: London Penguin Books Ltd. 2015 Description: 359 pISBN: 9780241957714Subject(s): English language--Grammar | English language--Style | English language--Writing | RhetoricDDC classification: 808.042 Summary: 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—and why should we care? From the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now.
In this entertaining and eminently practical book, the cognitive scientist, dictionary consultant, and New York Times–bestselling author Steven Pinker rethinks the usage guide for the twenty-first century. Using examples of great and gruesome modern prose while avoiding the scolding tone and Spartan tastes of the classic manuals, he shows how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right. The Sense of Style is for writers of all kinds, and for readers who are interested in letters and literature and are curious about the ways in which the sciences of mind can illuminate how language works at its best.
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| 808.02 BON How to be a writer | 808.02 BRA Zen in the art of writing: | 808.036 CRO Wired for story: the writer's guide to using brain science to hook readers from the very first sentence | 808.042 PIN The Sense of Style: the thinking person's guide to writing in the 21st century | 808.3 BRO Save the cat! writes a novel: | 808.394 BEL Write great fiction: | 811.54 PLA Ariel |
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—and why should we care? From the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now.
In this entertaining and eminently practical book, the cognitive scientist, dictionary consultant, and New York Times–bestselling author Steven Pinker rethinks the usage guide for the twenty-first century. Using examples of great and gruesome modern prose while avoiding the scolding tone and Spartan tastes of the classic manuals, he shows how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right. The Sense of Style is for writers of all kinds, and for readers who are interested in letters and literature and are curious about the ways in which the sciences of mind can illuminate how language works at its best.
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