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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: sense of style
    sub title: the thinking person's guide to writing in the 21st century
  name:
    name part: Pinker, Steven
    name part: 1954-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  abstract: 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, 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 know-how, 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.
  table of contents: Good writing -- A window onto the world -- The curse of knowledge -- The web, the tree, and the string -- Arcs of coherence -- Telling right from wrong.
  note: Steven Pinker.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-338) and index.
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Style
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Grammar
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Style Manuals
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation
  subject:
    topic: REFERENCE / Writing Skills
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Grammar
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Style
  classification: PE1421 .P56 2014
  classification: 808/.042
  classification: LAN028000 LAN006000 REF026000
  identifier: 0670025852 (hbk.)
  identifier: 9780670025855 (hbk.)
  identifier: 2014004509
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140303
    record change date: 20151206123746.0
    record identifier: in00003519207
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng