William Zinsser, Author of “On Writing Well”, Dies at 92

[muhfuhkuh]

He was the oracle of sound writing practice. I studied the example page[1] from his book with his hand-written edits like it was ancient cuneiform. Always the consummate perfectionist in the professional sense of the word, Zinsser was part of the reason I was a technical writer for nearly 15 of my professional years.

1. http://i.imgur.com/UGWP4vi.jpg

[userbinator]

...and on the other side, a linguistics professor is a bit more critical about his advice:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18345

(I expect there will be a post on that site about Zinsser's death too.)

[tarheeljason]

That example affirms the power of "show, don't tell." Those pages, in the raw, assure the novice or insecure writer that even experts revise and resubmit.

RIP, Zissner.

[SixSigma]

On Writing Well is available online.

https://archive.org/details/OnWritingWell

It helped me go from low 70s to high 80s at Uni.

[dragop]

Given the subject, would it be amiss to point out that the title as written here is missing a comma?

[dragop]

Now corrected.