Blog Post 1.2
”There is a kind of writing that might be called journalese, and it’s the death of freshness in anybody’s style. It’s the common currency of newspaper and of magazines like people– a mixture of cheap words, made up words and cliches that have become so pervasive that a writer can hardly help using them. You must fight these phrases or you’ll sound like every hack. You’ll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is almost obsessive” ( Zinsser 32).
For new writers who are eagerly working to sound like a writer, I think this is a very good idea. Words are all in all in writing that convey the messages of the writers to the readers. A writer writes for its readers and if he is not cautious in choosing the right words his readers will suffer for it and consequently, they will turn away. It’s very simple that when a reader takes a piece of writing and spends his/her time reading it, they only see the words quilted by the writer, not the writer himself. As a result, choosing the right words is extremely important for a writer. What Zinsser means by it is use nouns to describe nouns, use verbs to describe verbs; we don’t need nouns to describe verbs, nor do we need verbs to describe nouns. If you as a writer do not respect words, you will not get respects from your readers.
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