The sense of style : the thinking person's guide to writing in the 21st century
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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 bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers... Full description
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.