gruseom asks, Is there anyone writing today with anything like that quality (i.e. that combination of clarity and directness)? Steven Pinker is attempting to a

gruseom asks, Is there anyone writing today with anything like that quality (i.e. that combination of clarity and directness)? Steven Pinker is attempting to advocate for more clarity and directness in writing. I think his rather long lecture on MIT video, "Communicating Science and Technology in the 21st Century," http://video.mit.edu/watch/communicating-science-and-technology-in-the-21st-century-steven-pinker-12644/ http://video.mit.edu/watch/communicating-science-and-technol... has been submitted to Hacker News before. In text, I see Pinker has a shorter work, possibly transcribed from a different lecture, "The Writing Code," http://www.thewritingcode.com/pages/transcripts/pinker.html http://www.thewritingcode.com/pages/transcripts/pinker.html that discusses what makes writing distinct from speech (Pinker knows this even better than Orwell, as a linguist) and how to revise prose.