S teven Pinker is about as close as you can come to being an academic celebrity. The Harvard professor of psychology has written seven books for a general readership in addition to his scholarly work, ...

Steven Pinker's new book is "The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century." (jeffrey james pacres/Flickr) As broadcasters, we're taught to write in clear, active ...

Speaking to a packed Farkas Hall Tuesday evening, Psychology professor Steven Pinker and former executive editor of The New York Times Jill E. Abramson ’76 defended clear, vigorous writing, condemning ...

'It’s not just that you don’t think about what the other person doesn’t know, you don’t think about the fact that you haven’t thought about it' You can save this article by registering for free here.

Omit needless words. Don't write what you wouldn't say. Ditch clichés! Use zeugmas and anapests! Avoid zombie nouns! That first rule — omit needless words — comes from the classic language stylebook ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link This article is about how people's brains make sense of what they read. According to Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, author of "The ...

Psycholinguist Steven Pinker is fed up with sloppy, awkward communication. In an effort to change this, he offers up The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century and believes this new ...

"There are many battles of history that were lost because of botched communication," says Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University. In today's workplace where email and Slack ...

Sometime during middle school, I showed my father something I’d written for a class assignment. About halfway through reading, he stopped, pointed and said “that’s grammatically incorrect. You wrote ...

Cognitive scientist and Harvard professor Steven Pinker, author of “The Language Instinct” and “The Blank Slate,” has written extensively about the acquisition of language. His newest book, “The Sense ...