Comments on: On Writing Well, William Zinnsner (10 down, 42 to go) http://comingupforair.net/2007/03/on-writing-well-william-zinnsner-10-down-42-to-go/ Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:49:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Kate http://comingupforair.net/2007/03/on-writing-well-william-zinnsner-10-down-42-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-38200 Kate Fri, 16 May 2008 08:56:46 +0000 http://comingupforair.net/2007/03/26/on-writing-well-william-zinnsner-10-down-42-to-go/#comment-38200 This was on the reccomended reading list when I went to Journalism school, but I went for the Strunk and White instead. I still love the idea of never 'wasting' words. I am the assistant to the editor of an academic journal called the Medical Law Review and I always think in the back of my head 'I could shave at least a thousand words off this paper...' But so it goes. Instead I fix their comma usage. This was on the reccomended reading list when I went to Journalism school, but I went for the Strunk and White instead. I still love the idea of never ‘wasting’ words.

I am the assistant to the editor of an academic journal called the Medical Law Review and I always think in the back of my head ‘I could shave at least a thousand words off this paper…’ But so it goes. Instead I fix their comma usage.

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