The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century Audiobook (Free)

A short and entertaining reserve on the modern art of composing well by NY Moments bestselling author Steven Pinker

Why is a lot writing so very bad, and how do we help to make it better? May be the English language getting corrupted by texting and social media marketing? Do the kids today even value good writing? Why should anybody care?

In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the utilization information for the twenty-first hundred years, about The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century Pinker doesn’t carp about the decrease of language or recycle pet peeves from your rulebooks of a century ago. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of vocabulary and mind to the challenge of crafting apparent, coherent, and stylish prose.

In this brief, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer the nice prose of others. He replaces dogma about utilization with cause and evidence, permitting authors and editors to apply the rules judiciously, instead of robotically, being mindful of what they are made to accomplish.

Filled with examples of great and gruesome prose, Pinker shows us how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right.