本書倡導英文原汁原味的寫作概念。不可諱言的，英文仍是世界普遍使用的語言，當希望語言教育能夠徹底深植所有學生的基礎教育時，卻往往讓許多錯誤的教學方式誤導當地學生對於語言的理解與想法。一旦這些觀念深植至學生的生活日常中，就很難予以改正。該書的優點在於，本來這本教材是提供給英語為母語的人士而寫，因此有一定的深度與廣度，不過對於語文有興趣的讀者，是不可多得的教材，作者提出了相當多英文領域方面的寫作概念與想法，不僅讓讀者可以深切的領悟英文閱讀的豐厚富美，也可以訓練對於英文這一個領域的寫作與語言的律動。作者William Zinsser不僅是教師、作家，也是音樂家，曾任報社工作，如今在New School任教，這本《On Writing Well》可說是他最重要的作品，出版已經超過三十年，不過卻仍是美國英文、新聞寫作相關科系的必讀書籍。著名經濟學家曼昆曾經在他的文章my rules of thumb中推薦了本書「I often recommend Strunk and White's The Elements of Style to my students, and I am surprised at how many have never heard of it.(It is the perfect book to leave in the bathroom. Whenever you have a spare minute, open it to a random page and start reading.)I also recommend that students read William Zinsser's On Writing Well to learn how to write and Donald McCloskey's The Rhetoric of Economics to learn how to persuade.」 Whether you write an occasional professional letter or a daily newspaper column, William Zinsser's On Writing Well should be required reading. ……
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet.Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you fundamental priciples as well as the insights of a distinguished writer and teacher. With more than a million copies sold, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valuable resource for writers and would-be writers.
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