Reddit reviews The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
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Mind's I edited by Daniel Dennet and Douglas Hofsteader
A Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julien Jaynes (This is completely debunked, but mindblowing all the same).
I'd add The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
I actually prefer it over Elements of Style...and the book's description explains why in a nice summary...
> Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first century, Pinker doesn’t carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rule books of a century ago. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose.
> In this short, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical know how, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer the good prose of others. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed to accomplish.
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Emphasis mine.
There is a new book coming out that reformats the Elements of Style:
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinkner