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SUMMARY:Steven Pinker's "The Sense of Style" Book Launch and Seminar
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DESCRIPTION:Does writing well matter in an age of instant communication? 
 More than ever before\, the currency of our social and cultural lives is
  the written form\, from Twitter and texting to blogs\, e-readers and ol
 d-fashioned books. Drawing on the latest research in linguistics and cog
 nitive science\, Steven Pinker replaces the recycled dogma of style guid
 es with reason and evidence. Funny and thoughtful\, he explains why styl
 e still matters: in communicating effectively\, in enhancing the spread 
 of ideas\, in earning a reader’s trust and\, not least\, in adding beaut
 y to the world.\n\nSteven Pinker is an award-winning cognitive scientist
 \, public intellectual and Professor of Psychology at Harvard University
 . He’s also the lauded author of bestselling books The Language Instinct
 \, Words and Rules\, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Stuff of Th
 ought: Language as a Window into Human Nature. His latest book is The Se
 nse of Style\, The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in The 21st Centur
 y. The event will be chaired by Daniel M. Davis\, Professor at the Unive
 rsity of Manchester and author of The Compatibility Gene. This event is 
 presented in partnership with the University and Euroscience Open Forum.
 \n\nTickets can now be purchased using the attached link to the Manchest
 er Literature Festival website. 
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LOCATION:Lecture Theatres A/B\, University Place\, M13 9PL
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