He was the oracle of sound writing practice. I studied the example page[1] from his book with his hand-written edits like it was ancient cuneiform. Always the consummate perfectionist in the professional sense of the word, Zinsser was part of the reason I was a technical writer for nearly 15 of my professional years.<p>1. <a href="http://i.imgur.com/UGWP4vi.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/UGWP4vi.jpg</a>
On Writing Well is available online.<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/OnWritingWell" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/OnWritingWell</a><p>It helped me go from low 70s to high 80s at Uni.