Coherence And Style In Steven Pinker's The Sense Of Style

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COHERENT WRITING

Coherence and style don’t necessarily walk hand by hand. Clearness and logic relates to the first while style reflects an individual’s way of observing the word. In a way coherence and style can also be opposites depending on each individual’s capability to understand the other. Steven Pinker’s The sense of style1 analyses five different writing styles in its first chapter, and probably, most of society would need a manual of definitions to be capable of understanding their content. Thus, as well as reflecting an individual’s way of observing the world, style involves knowledge.

The difference between a beautiful landscape and an open door to paradise is that the first represents a coherent sentence for most readers while the second one doesn’t certainly cover that standard. Understanding the second sentence implies knowing the meaning of paradise and then the capability of imagining it. What Pinker calls The curse of knowledge appears in its most basic form in the example shown above and nevertheless both sentences are written with style. Style after all, is the chosen method by an individual for communication. …show more content…

“The main goals of news writing can be summarized by the ABCs of journalism: accuracy, brevity and clarity.”2 Regarding the punctuation and grammar rules, a short version of the AP Stylebook will be used to that purpose (annex 1).

CHARACTERISTICS OF C2 LEVEL LANGUAGE
This section of the style manual includes the written characteristics of c2 level language used by the Common European Frame of Reference for Languages, CEFR.

OVERALL WRITTEN PRODUCTION Can write clear, smoothly-flowing, complex texts in an appropriate and effective style and a logical structure which helps the reader to find significant

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