Unit 7 Assignment 2: Reading Guide Part 1: Simplicity

Unit 7 Assignment 2: "Simplicity" Selection

For Section 2 of this assignment, you must read "Simplicity", Chapter 2 from On Writing Well from William Zinsser. After reading the selection, you must answer the following questions:

1. What is Zinsser's basic argument in this selection?

2. What questions does Zinsser say a writer must constantly ask himself or herself in order to write well?

3. Is Zinsser's argument here effective? (Explain your answer, and this answer must be no less than a paragraph.)

To read the selection, click on the link above, and you may either paste the questions into the text box in OW or answer all of the questions in a selection of at least 2 paragraphs.