Sense Of Style

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Steven Pinker: Sense Of Style (2015, Penguin Books Ltd, imusti)

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Published June 6, 2015 by Penguin Books Ltd, imusti.

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978-0-241-95771-4
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A guide to writing English informed by recent scholarship (linguistics, cognative science, and such like).

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At first, I confess, I wasn’t thrilled by it. It seemed ok, while a bit posh. But that, I think, happened, because I was not familiar with Pinker’s style. And truth is that his is a peculiar one: thoroughly backed by solid research, insightful examples and timely delivery.

In a guide about style for the 21st century thinker, Pinker shines as someone who not only has a masterful theoretical grasp of the subject at hand, but who is also a master of the craft itself. And thanks to this, the book is as easy to read as it is to understand.

The content, however, goes beyond what you would expect from such a guide. Pinker is not merely focused on the plethora of dos and donts of the writing craft, but on making you understand why this or that is preferable to some other alternative. And by doing so, …

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