On Writing Well
Congratulations to William Zinsser, winner of this year’s National Magazine Award in the category of Digital Commentary. Zinsser, 89, beat out CNET’s Molly Wood, The Daily Beast’s Michelle Goldberg, The New Yorker writers on Osama bin Laden, and Rolling Stone’s Matt…
Read MoreHere is an excerpt from an article written by William Zinsser for his Zinsser on Friday series featured by The American Scholar website. “The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and…
Read MoreIn The Best of Business, a book published by The Economist in collaboration with Pegasus Books in 2009, one of the entries identifies and briefly explains “Six rules of good writing.” They are: 1. Do not be stuffy. 2. Do…
Read MoreHere is an excerpt from an article written by William Zinsser for his series “Zinsser on Friday,” a weekly posting about writing, the arts, and popular culture by the author of On Writing Well, based on a favorite quotation or…
Read MoreIn my opinion, William Zinsser (author of On Writing Well and 17 other books) is the best single source for expert advice on how to write effectively. Zinsser on Friday is his weekly posting at The American Scholar website about…
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Jeff Bezos’s Peculiar Management Tool for Self-Discipline at Amazon Meetings
Here is an article originally published by the I Done This Blog in 2017. Two years later, fresh advice for managers was added. * * * The modern workplace’s vogue is informal information exchange. We sit in open floor plan offices so that…
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