Writing to Learn, William Zinsser
Writing to Learn, William Zinsser
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Writing to Learn
How to Write - And Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All

Author: William Zinsser

Narrator: Charles Constant

Unabridged: 7 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/02/2025

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

William Zinsser’s Writing to Learn shows students how to write clearly about any subject—from mathematics, physics and chemistry to art and music-and how to use writing as a means of learning.In his warm and engaging style, Zinsser dispels students’ fear of writing, and he shows them that the process of writing can help them understand a subject that they always thought they had no aptitude for. Taking students into many surprising corners of knowledge, Zinsser provides proof that every field has an accessible literature.This audiobook is expertly read by Charles Constant, with audio engineering by Logan Nyman. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.Copyright (c) 1988 by William K. Zinsser (P) (2025) Echo Point Books & Media, LLC.

About William Zinsser

William Zinsser is a writer, editor, and teacher. He began his career with the New York Herald Tribune and has been a longtime contributor to leading magazines. He is the author of seventeen books, including Writing to Learn; Mitchell & Ruff; Spring Training; American Places; Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs; and Writing About Your Life. During the 1970s, he taught writing at Yale University, where he was master of Branford College. He now teaches at the New School in New York City, his hometown, and at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Roy on October 10, 2016

Humor is the most perilous of writing forms, full of risk; to make a vocation of brightening the reader’s day is an act of continuing gallantry. Specialization inspires in me a certain existential dread. This is of two sorts. The first is the despairing thought that, by specializing, I will come......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on August 08, 2013

If you’ve read On Writing Well, you should read this book too. If you haven’t, you should read them both. Writing to Learn does a great job of summarizing the idea of “Writing Across the Curriculum.” It gives examples, justifications, and inspiration. I would sum up the book like this: 1. Writing he......more

Goodreads review by Anne on October 02, 2016

For anyone interested in the definition and use of "living books" in education, this is full of good examples and ponderings. It might be useful to accompany the topical chapters (such as "how to read social science") in Adler's How to Read a Book.......more

Goodreads review by Megan on November 09, 2009

About six years ago I spent such a happy afternoon in the Melbourne library, reading Zinsser's On Writing Well (similar in style and content to Strunk and White's Elements of Style), I was happy to pick up another of his books when it came my way. The opening chapters were exciting: Zinsser wrote we......more

Goodreads review by Brian on March 16, 2014

I expected instruction on how to enjoy what we learned by writing reflectively about it. What I got was a warm and engaging memoir that also conveyed the former. This author provides a kindred spirit to those who are curious about more than their essential daily function, and he will encourage this,......more

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