On Writing Well ch.16

Summary

Ch.16 Business Writing: writing in your job

Zinsser suggests writing with humanity and getting rid of long vague words in business writing. Make the reader feel warm. Staying clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity is the key to narrow the gap between the true self and the woking self. Also, writing style reflects one's thinking which implies hard work and hard thinking is the essential principle for the writer.

Vocabulary

• impart
  Information can be imparted clearly and without pomposity.
  此处为传授，告知 to pass information, knowledge, etc. to other people
  [造句] Everyone has the right and freedom to impart information.
  impart也有赋予，给予的意思 to give a particular quality to something
  [造句] The spice imparts a special flavour to the dish.

• squander
  He is squandering a rich resource: himself.
  挥霍，浪费
  [造句] He squandered all his money on gambling in the casino.

• fall back on
  He falls back on the jargon of his profession, where he feels safe, not stopping to notice that he really isn’t telling the parent anything.
  借助于，依赖，依靠
  [造句] They had to fall back on the emergency supplies when the earthquake destroyed the road to the town.