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Writing is like a good watch—it should run smoothly and have no extra parts.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
writing, grammar, spelling, organization and content.”
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
Most first drafts can be cut by 50 percent without losing any information or losing the author’s voice.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that’s already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what—these are the thousand and one
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William Zinsser • On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
the writing of the book proved one of its central points: that we write to find out what we know and what we want to say.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
every discipline has a literature—a body of good writing that students and teachers can use as a model; writing is learned mainly by imitation. Therefore I decided to look for the literature myself: to collect brief examples of good, accessible writing in a variety of academic disciplines.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition