The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
- ISBN-10
- 0143127799
- ISBN-13
- 9780143127796
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 359
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-09-22
- Author
- Steven Pinker
Description
"Pinker has a lot of ideas and sometimes controversial opinions about writing and in this entertaining and instructive book he rethinks the usage guide for the 21st century. Don't blame the internet, he says, good writing has always been hard. It requires imagination, taking pleasure in reading, overcoming the difficult we all have in imaging what it's like to not know something we do know."--Publisher information.
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- 2015-09-03
- 368 pages
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- 2014-09-04
- 368 pages
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