Writing with power : techniques for mastering the writing process /
A classic handbook for anyone who needs to write, Writing With Power speaks to everyone who has wrestled with words while seeking to gain power with them. Here, Peter Elbow emphasizes that the essential activities underlying good writing and the essential exercises promoting it are really not diffic...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©1998.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Some essentials. An approach to writing
- Freewriting
- Sharing
- The direct writing process for getting words on paper
- Quick revising
- The dangerous method: trying to write it right the first time
- More ways of getting words on paper. The open-ended writing process
- The loop writing process
- Metaphors for priming the pump
- Working on writing while not thinking about writing
- Poetry as no big deal
- More ways to revise. Thorough revising
- Revising with feedback
- Cut-and-paste revising and the collage
- The last step: getting rid of mistakes in grammar
- Nausea
- Audience. Other people
- Audience as focusing force
- Three tricky relationships to an audience
- Writing for teachers
- Feedback. Criterion-based feedback and reader-based feedback
- A catalogue of criterion-based questions
- A catalogue of reader-based questions
- Options for getting feedback
- Power in writing. Writing and voice
- How to get power through voice
- Breathing experience into words
- Breathing experience into expository writing
- Writing and magic.
