On Writing Well : : the Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

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Principles: Transaction -- Simplicity -- Clutter -- Style -- Audience -- Words -- Usage -- Methods: Unity -- Lead and the ending -- Bits & pieces -- Forms: Nonfiction as literature -- Writing about people: Interview -- Writing about places: Travel article -- Writing about yourself: Memoir -- Science and technology -- Business writing: Writing in your job -- Sports -- Writing about the arts: Critics and columnists -- Humor -- Sound of your voice -- Enjoyment, fear and confidence -- Tyranny of the final product -- Writer's decisions -- Write as well as you can.
On Writing Well, which grew out of a course that William Zinsser taught at Yale, has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and for the warmth of its style. It is a book for anybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts, or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you both fundamental principles as well as the insights of a distinguished practitioner. With over a million copies in print, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valued resource for writers and would-be writers.

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Brilliant advice about writing better non-fiction submitted by sVfGI7Glt2pz7GZgVB90 on July 28, 2019, 8:37am Zinsser’s central premise is that good writing is the result of hard work, not an inborn talent. The book’s particular strength is in Zinsser’s selection of paragraphs by great writers.

A trusted source submitted by ccrose on August 23, 2019, 11:25am The key question is: what purpose will this writing serve? To educate, to stir an awareness never before clear, to debate,
To describe?
For each of these, clarity and sequence are a part achieved by rewriting.