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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, Seventh Edition, by William Zinsser (Review)

By Jon Hersey

Dec 06, 2017
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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, Seventh Edition, by William Zinsser
New York: Harper Perennial, 2016
336 pp. $10.07 (paperback).

William Zinsser’s On Writing Well is an outstanding guide for anyone who writes nonfiction. Whether you write emails or op-eds, family histories or scientific papers, reading and integrating Zinsser’s Cl…

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