== Link: an excerpt from *On Writing Well* Here are [[chapters 2 through 4 http://www.cla.wayne.edu/polisci/kdk/general/sources/zinsser.htm]] of William Zinsser's *On Writing Well*, a classic book on, well, writing well. Just start with the opening of chapter 2 and keep going: > Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society > strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous > frills and meaningless jargon. Remind you of any computer manuals you've read recently? (Hopefully it does not remind you too much of WanderingThoughts. I try, but I know I have a long way to go.) [[On Writing Well http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060891548/]] itself can be gotten from the online bookseller of your [[choice http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/item/books-978006089154/]]. (My choices are Canadian.) (From [[a comment http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=185119&cid=15280376]] on a [[Slashdot article about writing http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/07/0132249&mode=nocomment]].)