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• tokenadult · 2014 年

  ……有些人显然是在非英语国家长大、母语是别的语言。继续练习，你会写得更好的。关于具体的写作建议，我推荐 Steven Pinker 的新书《The Sense of Style》[1]，它讲的不只是英语里那些吹毛求疵的条条框框，更是如何以一种有助于提升写作的方式去“思考”。那本书里的理念，我自己也还得练习很久。至于……

  …some people who plainly grew up speaking some other language in a non-English-speaking country. Keep practicing, and you will become better. For specific writing advice, I recommend the new book The Sense of Style[1] by Steven Pinker, which is about not just fussy rules of English but also about THINKING in a way that helps improve writing. I will have to practice with the ideas in that book for a long time. For…

• tkfu · 2016 年

  ……真正能教你怎么写得更好的好书，而不是一味给你顺毛、让你对着那些写出“粗鄙不堪”文字的平民百姓啧啧冷笑。Pinker 的《The Sense of Style》就是其中一本；Ann Lamott 的《Bird by Bird》是另一本。关于语言实际上如何影响我们的思考方式，也存在好得多（而且更精准、更科学）的资料。Benjamin……

  …actual good books that can teach you how to write better, instead of patting you on the back and allowing you to tut-tut at those plebians who write things that are "outright barbarous". Pinker's The Sense of Style is one of those; Ann Lamott's Bird by Bird is another. There also exist much better (and more accurate and scientific) resources about how language actually affects the way we think about things. Benjamin…

• tokenadult · 2016 年

  ……研究对其他搞研究的数学家会更有影响力。对于刚起步的数学家来说，这听起来像是一个很值得尝试的重要实验。更普遍地说，在非常出色的《The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century》[1] 一书中，作者兼学者 Steven Pinker 指出，任何写作者最难做到的事情就是避免“知识的诅咒”（curse of knowledge），即想当然地认为……

  …research would have more influence on other research mathematicians. That sounds like an important experiment to try for an early-career mathematician. More generally, in the very excellent book The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century,[1] author and researcher Steven Pinker makes the point that the hardest thing for any writer to do is to avoid the "curse of knowledge," assuming…

• cpchen · 2017 年

  我挺喜欢 Steven Pinker 的《The Sense of Style》（的前三分之二）。里面包含了不少规定主义（prescriptivism）在哪些地方行得通、哪些地方行不通的例子。

  I enjoyed (the first 2/3 of) Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style. It includes examples of where prescriptivism fails and succeeds.

• Veen · 2018 年

  写得太棒了，不过我建议大家还是离 Strunk and White 远点——那书太老旧了，而且充斥着废话。不如试试 Steven Pinker 的《The Sense of Style》、Virginia Tuft 的《Artful Sentences》，以及我最近的新欢——Joe Moran 的《First Write a Sentence》。

  This is great, although I'd suggest people steer clear of Strunk and White -- it's ancient and full of nonsense. Instead, try Steven Pinker's "The Sense of Style", "Artful Sentences" by Virginia Tuft, and a new favorite, "First Write a Sentence" by Joe Moran.

• ajarmst · 2021 年

  我并不认同在文笔优美与信息量丰富之间必须二选一的前提，但这个论点打一开始就站不住脚。他们抱怨 Pinker 为学术界写的东西不行（大家推测主要是针对他的《A Sense of Style》，这本书我毫无保留地推荐），指责的由头却是他面向非学术受众的作品。如果你想要更“学术”的风格，Pinker 完全有能力提供……

  I don't accept the premise that you must choose between stylish and informative writing, but the argument fails at the outset. Complaining that Pinker (one assumes especially in his A Sense of Style, which I recommend without reservation) writes poorly for academics by focusing on his writing for a non-academic audience. If you desire a more "academic" style, Pinker is quite capable of providing…

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