

On Writing Well Audio Collection
Author: William Zinsser
Narrator: William Zinsser
Abridged: 2 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 11/02/2004
Categories: Nonfiction, Language Arts, Writing, Art
Author: William Zinsser
Narrator: William Zinsser
Abridged: 2 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 11/02/2004
Categories: Nonfiction, Language Arts, Writing, Art
William Zinsser is a writer, editor and teacher. He began his career on the New York Herald Tribune and has since written regularly for leading magazines. During the 1970s he was master of Branford College at Yale. His 17 books, ranging from baseball to music to American travel, include the influential Writing to Learn and Writing About Your Life. He teaches at the New School in New York.
It’s always intimidating setting out to write a review of a book on writing. One feels naked, exposed—now you have to prove that you’ve learned something. Lucky for me, I am a creature with little shame, so I’ll let my prose all hang out. After reading Pragmatism by the American philosopher William......more
Zinsser's first few chapters talk solely about eliminating clutter and simplifying your work... yet his book is more than 300 pages of repetitive, hypocritical and lengthy sentences. This book could have been easily shortened to 50-100 pages. I was not a fan of his many examples (quite frankly, I sk......more
How do you learn to write, really, other than by writing. But now and then, it's good to pause and think about the art of good writing, the craft. This famous little book can be the reflective pause that will help you be care-full, love-full, with your work. The book is not just more of the same old......more
O lucrare excelentă, un „clasic” al literaturii americane. Cîteva recenzii au luat forma unui rețetar (ceea ce se numește în engleză „listicle”) și ne anunță: „Cele 10 reguli pentru a scrie non-ficțiune în formularea lui Zinsser”. Sau : „10 sfaturi pentru a scrie bine de la renumitul Profesor William......more
I always thought of the ability to write well as a gift more than a skill--kind of like hand-eye coordination, or rhythm. You either have it or you don't. It's not until I began working in the editorial world that I realized the writing which seems effortless is that which requires the most effort.......more