Eye-opening, mind-expanding and cheerful, The Sense of Style shows that good style is part of what it means to be human.Winner, Plain English Campaign's International Award 2014: 'a superbly and clearly written celebration of the best, least fuzzy kind of writing. In this funny, thoughtful book about the modern art of writing, Steven Pinker shows us why we all need a sense of style. Pinker, the distinguished cognitive scientist and author of many works on the mind and language, is also chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, and his new book covers.

This thinking person's guide to good writing shows why style still matters: in communicating effectively, in enhancing the spread of ideas, in earning a reader's trust and, not least, in adding beauty to the world. A guide for the new millennium, writes Steven Pinker, has to be different.Drawing on the latest research in linguistics and cognitive science, Steven Pinker replaces the recycled dogma of previous style guides with reason and evidence. In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Confusing changes in the world with moral decline, every generation believes the kids today are degrading society and taking language with it.

They fail to deal with an inescapable fact about language: it changes over time, adapted by millions of writers and speakers to their needs. But most style guides fail to prepare people for the challenges of writing in the 21st century, portraying it as a minefield of grievous errors rather than a form of pleasurable mastery. Straight off, I would have to query the esteemed professor’s semantics Steven Pinker’s book is less about writing with a sense of style than making sense of English grammar. Brought to you by Penguin.What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In this funny, thoughtful book about the modern art of writing, Steven Pinker shows us why we all need a sense of style.More than ever before, the currency of our social and cultural lives is the written word, from Twitter and texting to blogs, e-readers and old-fashioned books. Steven Pinker talked about his book, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, in which he questions.

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