The Sense of Style

The Sense of Style
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Publisher : Penguin Books
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9780143127796
ISBN-13 : 0143127799
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Book Synopsis The Sense of Style by : Steven Pinker

Download or read book The Sense of Style written by Steven Pinker and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."--Publisher information.


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