文档介绍：On Writing Well BOOKS BY WILLIAM ZINSSER Any Old Place With You Seen Any Good Movies Lately? The City Dwellers Weekend Guests The Haircurl Papers Pop Goes America The Paradise Bit The Lunacy Boom On Writing Well Writing With a Word Processor Willie and Dwike (republished as Mitchell and Ruff) Writing to Learn Spring Training American Places Speaking of Journalism Easy to Remember AUDIO BOOKS BY WILLIAM ZINSSER On Writing Well How to Write a Memoir BOOKS EDITED BY WILLIAM ZINSSER Extraordinary lives: The Art and Craft of American Biography Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir Spiritual Quests: The Art and Craft of Religious Writing Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel Worlds of Childhood: The Art and Craft of Writing for Children They Went: The Art and Craft of Travel Writing Going on Faith: Writing as a Spiritual Quest On Writing Well cssao THE CLASSIC GUIDE TO WRITING NONFICTIO N 25th Anniversary Edition William Zinsser Quill A HarperResource Book An Imprint of HzrperCollinsPublishers CONTENTS osso INTRODUCTION 1234567 8910 111213141516171819 PART I Principles The Transaction Simplicity Clutter Style The Audience Words Usage PART II Methods Unity The Lead and the Ending Bits & Pieces PART ill Forms Nonfiction as Literature Writing About People: The Interview Writing About Places: The Travel Article Writing About Yourself: The Memoir Science and Technology Business Writing: Writing in Your Job Sports Writing About the Arts: Critics and Columnists Humor ix 37131825 33 38 4955 68 95100 116 133 148 166 179 194 208 viii CONTENT S PART IV Attitudes 20 The Sound of Your Voice 233 21 Enjoyment, Fear and Confidence 243 22 The Tyranny of the Final Product 255 23 A Writer s Decisions 265 24 Write as Well as You Can 286 SOURCES 29 5 INDEX 30 1