The Sense of Style
The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Recommended by Ellen Lupton, and 2 others. See all reviewsRanked #11 in Style, Ranked #12 in Academic Writing — see more rankings.
A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker
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 these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first century, Pinker doesn’t carp about the decline of language or recycle pet... more
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 these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first century, Pinker doesn’t carp about the decline of language or recycle pet... more
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Rankings by Category
The Sense of Style is ranked in the following categories:
- #100 in Communication Skills
- #86 in Creative Writing
- #13 in Dictionaries
- #20 in Editing
- #32 in English Grammar
- #37 in Fiction Writing
- #21 in Language
- #26 in Linguistics
- #16 in Puns
- #55 in Rhetoric
- #22 in Sense
- #21 in Writing
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