Sense Of Style

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Steven Pinker: Sense Of Style (2015, Penguin Books Ltd, imusti)

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Publié 6 juin 2015 par Penguin Books Ltd, imusti.

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978-0-241-95771-4
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A guide to writing English informed by recent scholarship (linguistics, cognative science, and such like).

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Good nuggets

Steven Pinker can be insufferable at times, but I think I must grant that this book had a net positive effect on my writing. I appreciate it and do recommend others to read it once or twice. The examples of good writing are instructive if not only pleasurable to read. The counter-arguments to other writing style-guides and grammar police are very constructive.

This book is best consumed in written form. Sections that speak of sentences as trees are harder to visualize by description alone; consulting the accompanying PDF just isn't practical. The sections on punctuation were a bit of a hard listen as well.