: Re: What are the most common style manuals? From Wikipedia: A style guide or style manual is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for

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Not a style guide, but for adding nuance to this discussion I'd like to suggest the talk "Linguistics, Style and Writing in the 21st Century" by Steven Pinker, held at the Royal Institution. Summary:

Does writing well matter in an age of instant communication? Drawing on the latest research in linguistics and cognitive science, Steven Pinker replaces the recycled dogma of style guides with reason and evidence. [...] Steven argues that style still matters: in communicating effectively, in enhancing the spread of ideas, in earning a reader’s trust and, not least, in adding beauty to the world. Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist and one of the world’s foremost writers on language, mind, and human nature. He is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University and conducts research on language and cognition but also writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and is the author of many books, including The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works.

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