On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction

William Zinsser

eBook - 2012

"On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition EPB is a bible for a generation of writers looking for clues to clean, compelling prose." —New York TimesA beloved classic and the definitive volume on the art of writing nonfictionOn Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition EPB, 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, this guide on cle...ar writing offers you both fundamental principles and the insights of a distinguished practitioner. With over a million copies in print, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a... more