On Writing Well: An Informed Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser [SECOND EDITION HARDCOVER] 1980 • Harper & Row

On Writing Well: An Informed Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser 

SECOND EDITION HARDCOVER [1980] HARPER & ROW

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket is in nice shape; some visible rub wear and a tiny tear on upper rear; now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.

Book itself looks great; minor wear.  Reads like new.

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.