Summary Of On Writing Well By William Zinsser

Daily Message On Writing Well.First, read Chapter Five “The Audience” of On Writing Well. In Chapter Five of On Writing Well, William Zinsser addresses a principal topic in rhetoric: the audience. James Porter notes that audience has been "an important concern of Rhetoric since the fifth century B.C.E., and the injunction to 'consider audience' is one of the oldest and most common suggestions to writers and speakers.” However, in “The Audience”, Zinsser asserts something much different: that the primary audience is the author, and the work should be composed with this in mind. “You are writing for yourself. Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience.” (Zinsser 25) Zinsser presents two main issues: craft and attitude. Craft is the technical