The Sense of Style : The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)

from nbmars

Steven Pinker is not only a Harvard professor and the renowned writer of numerous books and monographs on the workings of the mind, he is the chairman of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary-and that should demonstrate his chops to write a book on writing style, or at the very leas...

from nbmars

Steven Pinker is not only a Harvard professor and the renowned writer of numerous books and monographs on the workings of the mind, he is the chairman of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary-and that should demonstrate his chops to write a book on writing style, or at the very leas...

from DLMorrese

This isn't just a reference book. It's a witty and informative style guide of just over 300 pages that you can read from cover to cover with some measure of enjoyment. Although it is primarily intended for writers of nonfiction, it provides insightful guidance on grammar, punctuation, and word (m...

from ajungherr

Excellent discussion of writing-style, in which the author is not content with offering rules but instead discusses the reasons behind stylistic rules and conventions, debunks disfunctional rules, and most importantly encourages the writer to think pragmatically about word choice, sentence constr...

from DLMorrese

This isn't just a reference book. It's a witty and informative style guide of just over 300 pages that you can read from cover to cover with some measure of enjoyment. Although it is primarily intended for writers of nonfiction, it provides insightful guidance on grammar, punctuation, and word (m...