![]() We can’t blame bloviators, the Internet or today’s youth good writing has always been hard. Rather than worrying about the decline of the language or recycling spurious edicts from century-old rulebooks, we can apply insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose.ĭo people write badly on purpose, to bamboozle their readers with highfalutin gobbledygook? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Should we bring back the lost art of diagramming sentences? Have dictionaries abandoned their responsibility to safeguard correct usage? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care? Professor Pinker argues that we need to rethink usage advice for the 21st century. In The Sense of Style, he asks why so much writing is so bad. ![]() Steven Pinker, an experimental psychologist at Harvard, cognitive scientist and linguist, has been named as one of the world’s most influential intellectuals, and has written ten books including The Language Instinct and The Better Angels of our Nature. ![]()
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