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Review of Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style


The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the ...

Pinker's approach has many implications, but suffice it to say that if you treasure the old books, you will find yourself repeatedly (and ...

Book review: The Sense of Style – The Thinking Person's Guide to ...

I enjoyed most of Steven Pinker's, The Sense of Style – The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.

Reviews - The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to ...

Yet another style book, this one written by the famously knowledgeable psycholinguist Steven Pinker. His description of classic style is opaque and his ...

REVIEW: “The Sense of Style” by Steven Pinker

by Terry Pederson If you dreaded English class and still stumble over there, their and they're, then Steven Pinker's “The Sense of Style” ...

Book Review: The Sense of Style - Arrant Pedantry

I was intrigued when I first heard that Steven Pinker, the linguist and cognitive scientist, was writing a book on style. ... But even though it ...

The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker | Writing Slices

I first heard about THE SENSE OF STYLE when Pinker was a guest on NPR. The author had an engaging manner and he shared lively examples from ...

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the ...

Pinker explains how to ensure sentences form a complete whole by organizing your thoughts before writing. A larger concept can be broken down ...

The Sense of Style - Book Review - Big Girl Blue.com

All in all, The Sense of Style is a readable, informative and entertaining book, of value to any reader with an interest in the use and theory ...

The Sense of Style review – Steven Pinker's comedy of linguistic ...

The Sense of Style is a comedy of linguistic bad manners, a compendium of hilarious gaffes. Pinker enjoys assembling the sottisier.

Another Book for Writers: The Sense of Style - Anne Janzer

So encountering The Sense of Style was an unexpected delight. As a psychologist as well as writer and linguist, Pinker approaches tone, style, and grammar as ...

Book review: 'The Sense of Style' by Steven Pinker - Richard Carter

As a cognitive scientist with a professional interest in language, Steven Pinker should know what he's talking about when it comes to stringing ...

The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker, book review: Ways to write in the

Misleadingly titled, The Sense of Style directs itself almost exclusively at non-fiction writers and their dilemmas. Pinker charts a course ...

A review of Steven Pinker's, The Sense of Style - LinkedIn

While the obituary examples break some of the usual rules, Pinker uses his next chapter to remind the reader to keep writing clear and ...

The Sense of Style Summary of Key Ideas and Review | Steven Pinker

Brief summary. The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker is a guide on how to write well using a scientific approach to language. He emphasizes clarity and reasoning, ...

Book review: The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's ... - BoldFace

By Ana Trask If you want a comprehensive, in-depth guide that answers questions about grammar, usage, and style, turn to Steven Pinker's The ...

The Sense of Style - by Steven Pinker - Derek Sivers

The guiding metaphor of classic style is seeing the world. The writer can see something that the reader has not yet noticed, and he orients the ...

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the ...

In this funny, thoughtful book about the modern art of writing, Steven Pinker shows us why we all need a sense of style.

Book Summary and Reviews of The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker

Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first century, Pinker doesn't carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ...

The Sense of Style, by Steven Pinker - Anthony Campbell's

And Pinker's approach to grammar is explicitly based on The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002). I confess I'd never heard of this ...

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the ...

In this entertaining and eminently practical book, the cognitive scientist, dictionary consultant, and New York Times-bestselling author Steven Pinker rethinks ...