1) According to the author, what stigma has been placed on writers who are writing memoirs?

__·   2.    What textual evidence could be used to support that William Zinsser is an expert in his field?

__·   3.    According to William Zinser, what became the new topic for writing a memoir?

__·   4.    What evidence can you provide that supports what the crisis of our country is according to the speaker?

 

1. The anxiety of the past experiences lingers to writer of memoirs.

2. Zisnner used his own book as an evidence that he himself has made a highly acclaimed memoir. This means that he is credible to talk about how to write a memoir

"I feel, as a writer, that I have a contract with my readers to write the truth of my experiences..." (Zisnner, 2006).

3. He observes that writers focus more on how they were victims of the past and of people rather that focusing on how they come to reconcile with these traumatic past. It became a source of therapy.

"...Everyone was a victim" (Zisnner, 2006).

4. He thinks that many people in the country today especially the leaders disregard truth.

"I think it has become a metaphor for the fact that there is a crisis of truth in this country" (Zisnner, 2006).