The sense of style : (Record no. 135148)

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LC control number 2014004509
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System control number (Sirsi) i9780670025855
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International Standard Book Number 9780670025855 (hardcover)
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International Standard Book Number 0670025852 (hardcover)
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International Standard Book Number 9780525427926 (Export Edition)
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International Standard Book Number 0525427929 (Export Edition)
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International Standard Book Number 1846145503 (Cloth)
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International Standard Book Number 9781846145506 (Cloth)
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PE 1421
Item number .P56 2014
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Pinker, Steven,
Dates associated with a name 1954-
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245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The sense of style :
Remainder of title the thinking person's guide to writing in the 21st century! /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Steven Pinker.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York, New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Viking,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2014.
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Extent viii, 359 pages :
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Dimensions 22 cm
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500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Glossary (pages 309-318).
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-338) and index.
505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Title 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. " 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 21st century, Pinker doesn't carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose. In this short, 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 good prose of others. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed 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"--
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Summary, etc. "Pinker has a lot of ideas and sometimes controversial opinions about writing and in this entertaining and instructive book he rethinks the usage guide for the 21st century. Don't blame the internet, he says, good writing has always been hard. It requires imagination, taking pleasure in reading, overcoming the difficult we all have in imaging what it's like to not know something we do know"--
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650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element English language
General subdivision Style.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element English language
General subdivision Writing.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element English language
General subdivision Grammar.
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Holdings
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    Library of Congress Classification     Storms Research Center Storms Research Center Main Collection 10/28/2025   PE 1421 .P56 2014 98649263 10/28/2025 17.62 10/28/2025 Book