TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pinker,Steven
TI  - The sense of style: the thinking person's guide to writing in the 21st century 
SN  - 0143127799
AV  - PE1421 .P56 2015
U1  - 808.02 PIN 2015 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Literary style
KW  - English language
KW  - Style
KW  - Writing
KW  - Grammar
N1  - Includes glossary (pages 309-318); Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-338) and index; 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; First published in hardcover; [New York] : Viking Penguin, 2014
N2  - "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--and why should any of us care? In this entertaining and eminently practical book, the bestselling cognitive scientist Steven Pinker rethinks the usage guide for today's writers. Using examples of great and gruesome modern prose while avoiding the scolding tone of the classic manuals, he shows how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and intellectually fascinating. The Sense of Style is for writers of all kinds, and for readers who are interested in how the sciences of mind can illuminate how language works at its best"--
ER  -