Description
This engaging new book by the author of On Writing Well and Writing with a Word Processor takes as its point of departure the growing "writing across the curriculum" movement. Viewing writing and rewriting as organic parts of how every subject should be taught, Zinsser presents the writing process as a fundamental method of learning-how we think our way into such subjects as chemistry, math, music, art, anthropology, and psychiatry; how we find out what we know and don't know about them; and how we master them through writing about them.
Demonstrating that it's not necessary to be a "writer" to write well, Zinsser includes many brief examples of good, clear writing by such notable thinkers and well-known figures as Darwin, Einstein, Lewis Thomas, Rachel Carson, A. Hyatt Mayor, and Roger Sessions.
ISBN:9780060473983
