Analysis Of How To Write A Memoir By Zinsser

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In Zinsser “How to Write a Memoir”, give very specific advice for memoir write. He gives good suggestions such as “Be Yourself”, “Speak Freely”, and “Tell Your Own Story”, (2, 4, 6).Suggestions encourages writes to say what they want to say. First, Zinsser says, best memoirs are whitening from the best child’s point of view. From the memoir popular “be yourself is”, I guess I’ll just have to politely refuse and run away. In Zinsser say “because I when five, I now know best was a ground level “(26).When I was six my baby sister died and my mom and dad had to rush to the hospital. The book popular is about a girl that wants to be popular. Then, Narrator is also “speak freely” does not

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