Zinsser William

Writing to Learn

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  • Altynay Zhumagaliyevahas quoted8 years ago
    Those of us who teach science and other technical subjects have always felt insecure about writing. It’s not that we felt stupid—we knew that we could deal well with ideas and that we understood our discipline. But somehow when it came to putting words on paper it never came out right, and we heard about it,
  • Thomas Munk Christensenhas quoted6 years ago
    Clear writing is the logical arrangement of thought; a scientist who thinks clearly can write as well as the best writer.
  • Вадим Мазурhas quotedlast year
    the essay has nothing in it that doesn’t support the argument
  • Вадим Мазурhas quotedlast year
    By the end of the term all the students said how much better they understood a subject by having to write about it.
  • Вадим Мазурhas quotedlast year
    a piece of writing is a piece of thinking
  • Вадим Мазурhas quotedlast year
    The bad habits are just too habitual
  • zoespeleshas quoted4 years ago
    Writing and thinking and learning were the same process.
  • zoespeleshas quoted4 years ago
    thought of how often as a writer I had made clear to myself some subject I had previously known nothing about by just putting one sentence after another—by reasoning my way in sequential steps to its meaning. I thought of how often the act of writing even the simplest document—a letter, for instance—had clarified my half-formed ideas.
  • ghvsjdhdvshhas quoted4 years ago
    As Davies says in his introduction, the new physicists have “had to learn to approach their subject in totally unexpected and novel ways that seemed to turn common sense on its head and find closer accord with mysticism than materialism.
  • ghvsjdhdvshhas quoted4 years ago
    Students often feel guilty about modeling their writing on someone else’s writing. They think it’s unethical—which is commendable. Or they’re afraid they’ll lose their own identity.
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