The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
100 Ways to Improve Your Writing (Updated): Proven Professional Techniques for Writing with Style and Power
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They write as if they have something important to show. And that, we shall see, is a key ingredient in the sense of style.
Steven Pinker • The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Whether style is viewed as spiritual, fraudulent, or something in between, any concept of style that treats it as optional is inadequate not only to writing but to any human action. Nothing we do can be done “simply” and in no style, because style is something inherent in action, not something added to it. In this respect, style is like the typefac
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