Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All

Zinsser, William Knowlton

ISBN 10: 0060915765 / ISBN 13: 9780060915766

Published by Harper & Row, 1992

About this Item

Good writing makes any subject more interesting and accessible. This guide helps readers and writers improve their skills in reading, writing and thinking more clearly.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1733955082148

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060915765
• ISBN 13: 9780060915766
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 1 pound
• Seller catalogs:
  • Rhetoric, Learning, Writing
  • Writing, Literature

About this title

Synopsis

From the author of On Writing Well comes a book on how to write clearly aboutany subject--and how to use writing as a means of learning.

About the Author

William Zinsser is a writer, editor and teacher. He began his career with the New York Herald Tribune and has long been a freelance writer for leading magazines. During the 1970s he taught writing at Yale, where he was master of Branford College. From 1979 to 1987 he was general editor of the Book-of-the-Month Club. His 15 books, ranging from jazz to baseball, also includeSpeaking of Journalism, American Places and the influential Writing to Learn. He now teaches at the New School in New York, his hometown.