Writing To Learn

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Summary: Illustrious Life, Dense writer
Review: William Zinsser has lived an illustrious life as a working writer, editor, and teacher. He draws from this extensive experience and writes to encourage the teaching of writing accross the curriculum, as well as to allay fears of writing and of subjects we don't have an aptitude for.
Zinsser provides thorough and stunning examples of good writing from diverse disciplines, sprinkled with his own insightful commentary about what makes it good.
Buy this book if only for the catalog of excellant examples of the writing of notable thinkers like Thomas Lewis, Albert Einstein, Steven Gould, and many more.
Zinser includes excellant stories of how writing in any subject area encourages clear reasoning and thinking and concise expression in reader and writer alike. Students who write learn more and know why they do. Encourage your students to do so.

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Summary: Writing to Learn
Review: Writing to Learn William Zinsser, in his instructional nonfiction book Writing to Learn, incorporates the methods of writing well with examples of good writing. A recurring theme from his work is the theory of writing across the curriculum. Writing across the curriculum is a technique that he has adapted over years of approaching topics he knows little about. By writing about something, one can learn about that subject, and that's the main point of the book. College students, for example, who have trouble in English or humanity-style classes but excel in science and math, can benefit from writing about a topic they are interested in and familiar with. With selected examples from writers who are considered the best in their field, Zinsser offers the reader a clear picture of what good topic oriented writing should be. Writing to Learn is written in the same lighthearted concise style as On Writing Well, another of the author's works. In Writing to Learn William Zinsser applies anecdotes from his liberal education combined with light humor to develop chapters that vary from writing about art to writing about mathematics and music.

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Summary: The best guide to writing across the curriculum
Review: Zissner entices the reader to write, write, write! It is one of the best guides to aid professors, high school teachers, and every day people to write for everything. His chapters on writing for math, science and other fields where writing is sometimes difficult for students, are practical and full of examples. Great for first-time college students.