Throughout the book, Zinsser considers how good writing can memorably portray phenomena in medicine, business, education, sports, the arts, technology, and history. On Writing Well is divided into four parts: principles, methods, forms, and attitudes. Zinsser's overarching advice for writers in On Writing Well is to be economical in their writing, to be honest with themselves, and to be courteous to their audience by writing pieces that have a lot of thought behind them. Zinsser also taught writing at Yale and Columbia, and he often references his teaching experience to illustrate certain of his observations on writing. The range of articles he wrote during his life provided him with the expertise to offer advice on a range of nonfiction forms in his classic, On Writing Well. Zinsser, who died in 2015, was a longtime features writer for the New York Herald Tribune and other popular publications. American author William Zinsser’s On Writing Well (1976), is a popular writing manual for high school and college students.
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