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 twenty-first 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.
Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research, teaching, and books, he has been named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World Today and Foreign Policy's 100 Global Thinkers.
好的写作风格手册,思考语言运行机理,探索语言科学应用,整理文字的有效表达,目的是让学习写作之人按照这套手册来操作,也能掌握一套文字的法则。 综合最近碎片思考,整理三篇 15 条,希望对大家有用。 诚实篇 写作是写作者自己的诚实,强迫通过写作内化成文字,思考概念是否...
评分假如你翻看任何一本学术期刊,你会发现,很多学者写的文章都是通篇充满了一些你看不懂的专业词汇,即使你想阅读下去,也有很大难度。为什么呢? 原因在于,这些作者受到了「知识的诅咒」(curse of knowledge)。 知识的诅咒说的是,一个人对于某个领域的知识了如指掌,于是...
评分假如你翻看任何一本学术期刊,你会发现,很多学者写的文章都是通篇充满了一些你看不懂的专业词汇,即使你想阅读下去,也有很大难度。为什么呢? 原因在于,这些作者受到了「知识的诅咒」(curse of knowledge)。 知识的诅咒说的是,一个人对于某个领域的知识了如指掌,于是...
评分听完,没有看过。 有一些关键性字词。组块化,知识诅咒,功能固着。古典写作法(意识里有读者,解释给他听,上下句上下段上下文联系,用同一视角形成组块,便于记忆)。写作中常见三问题(保护自己用模糊性词语,用强调性词语,僵尸性名词) 人的记忆容量像抽屉,能放最多7个组...
......It’s about getting it right.
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评分我:读过一本写作书读完发现完全讲的是写作习惯和写作的精神状态,没什么用... 写作老师:我知道有一本还在学校书店里被推荐,讲的是很模糊的东西,对,也有写作习惯什么的,没什么实质的指导,less useful。我:是叫Sense of Style??? 写作老师:对对对!原来你吐槽的也是这本啊!
评分六星好书。断断续续读了近两个月,准备读第二遍。(启发最大的是前五章。以自己目前的英文水平,还不足以get到第六章的很多点呐T^T)
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