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The Sense of Style
- The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times best-selling 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 best-selling 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 others. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed to accomplish.
Filled with examples of great and gruesome prose, Pinker shows us how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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- Julie
- 2018-08-21
Grammar for days
I wanted a book about English style, and the first couple of chapters were about elegant writing and effective prose. But the second half was a long treatise on the minutiae of grammar which wasn't really what I was looking for. Pinker is a great writer, even when he was talking about semicolons, but I only found the first few chapters useful for what I was looking for.
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