_bookmoth 's review for:

Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All by William Zinsser

3.0

informative reflective medium-paced

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I loved Zinsser's book On Writing Well; I am lukewarm about Writing to Learn. Yes, it does have the great idea of writing as a means to understand your own thinking, forcing you to put into words what you are trying to understand. 

The main part of this book however, is a lot of show and not a lot of tell. Examples are rarely explored in detail, explained why they work. It felt like a museum with many pieces to explore but too small labels to better understand the their workings.