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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, ...

'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.

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 ...

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 ...

This article is about how people's brains make sense of what they read. According to Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, author of "The Sense of Style," that topic sentence helped catalyze the ...

"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 ...

Look at her a prisoner of the gutters. Condemned by every syllable she utters. By right she should be taken out and hung for the cold bloodied murder of the English tongue. This is what the British ...

I'm not a huge fan of Stephen Pinker's psychology, but he is a solid writer, and I respect his perspective on many subjects. So when he wrote a Chronicle article on "Why Academics Stink at Writing" I ...