Wednesday, January 23, 2019

“Simplicity” by William Zinsser

William Zinsser in his essay, Simplicity, describes the t depotency people redeem to inflate their own words. A majority of us think that something is missing if a word or sentence is too simple causing us to add inessential information only to confuse our readers. Zinsser shows us examples of this in every solar day time purport such as a simple letter, or a cusp by an insurance company, where the corporation uses a statement that overuses vo political hackulary to impart something so simple.Zinsser observes that, Clear thinking becomes clear report one thunder mugt exist without another,(Zinsser 175) His opinion on the key towards turn an excellent writer is to take every sentence and to shorten it so that to each one word has its set plump. As a writer, he believes the more than than clearheaded one is while constructing a piece of work, the better end foretell they will receive. Writing is not as easy as it may front. It base take several trials of perfecting on es work and more importantly revisions of ones thoughts homogeneous Zinssers writing.The more cognizant you become to your writing allows the writer to easily express their words and in society, good writing seems to be what lacks the most. Zinsser believes that a clear top dog can positively impact your writing like a clear mind can affect your performance in everyday life. Sometimes, the more formulation I have and the more seconds I work, seem to build to my speech pattern and negatively affect me in school. My weekly schedule is one that at times is fair hectic. With school, work and friends, sometimes the juggling of the three seem to reach a boiling point.I currently work at a waitressing job in which the night shifts are usually the ones that return me the most. I attend school at Hunter College 4 years a week. Mondays and Thursdays from 8 am to 4 pm, while Tuesdays and Fridays are from 11 am to 1 pm. My work schedule is for the most part from Tuesday, Thursdays, F ridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (mid day to late nights). Going to school four days a week and working 5 days a week is such a hassle in my life. I try to fit my social life in as well yet, sometimes it seems impossible. Thats when I get to by not going out I might be jeopardizing my friendships.Working almost five days a week doesnt give me enough time for myself or the ability to focus more on school. I come domicile so late that I usually stay up subjecting till 2 or 3 in the morning but have to wake up by 6 am. I run on 3 or 4 hours of sleep which doesnt give me enough energy to function at my highest capability. About devil weeks ago I reached a point in my life in which I was beginning to feel like a robot. On a Friday night, I came home from a bulky day at school, immediately headed to work knowing that I had two tests to study for Monday.Now I was scheduled to work the whole pass on night shifts that I was struggling to figure out how I could possibly fit in time to stud y. I tried my hardest to study in between work breaks, but the environment around me was pretty hectic, that I accomplished nothing. On Saturday and Sunday, I woke up a teensy earlier to study, but time was passing by so desist that on both days I only accomplished an hour or two to memorize some material. I would rush each day to start getting ready for work and to call my cab to get there on time. That Sunday from work I got home at 2 am and studied an hour for history, until I cruel asleep on my books.I instantly woke up, almost late for school, conscionable in time to make it to my English class. I was so trite that I was straining to make my eyes remain open. I had a few school breaks in between my classes, but I knew that I couldnt memorize all these material for two different subjects the day of the test. Taking both of those tests, made me realize that not only did I fail, but I needed to make some changes in my life. My graduation exercise priority is attending and e xcelling at school and juggling too some(prenominal) days at work with school is almost impossible to do.I knew I had to change my work schedule so that I have enough days to study and nights to rest in the future. In the end I knew it would work out even if I cut back on days to earn money, because my body and mind need to correctly rest. We dont seem to realize but sometimes there are many unnecessary things we do that can easily be adjusted. Either working too much or spending time doing other activities can take up a lot of our energy. As Zinsser illustrates simplifying ones life or ones writing is possible and necessary at times, and if we all learned to do so life would be much easier.

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