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Ep. #907: Book Club: My Top 5 Takeaways from On Writing Well by William Zinsser

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Five Key Take Away Quotes to Improve Your Writing

Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly can write clearly about anything at all. If you want to be a better researcher, studier, learner, thinker, you want to corporate writing into those activities. Most people think of research, study, learning, thinking purely as internal processes. The fabled physicist richard fanman would disagree. He was once interviewed by a historian who spotted fanman's note books and said how pleased he was to see that there were wonderful records of fanman's thinking. Fanman corrected him, they aren't a record of my thinking process, he said, they are my thinking process. I actually did the work on paper.

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