Writing under Pressure The Quick Writing Process

Name: Writing under Pressure The Quick Writing Process
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ISBN: 9780195066616

ISBN-10: 0195066618

ISBN-13: 9780195066616

Edition: 2005 (Reprint)

Authors: Sanford Kaye

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Most writing is done under pressure. An executive has to produce a three-page position paper by tomorrow at nine. A department head suddenly has to write a one-page action memo by noon. A graduate student has a twenty-page research paper due in a week. Yet, while most students and professionals write under pressure--with limited time, limited space, and a supervisor or instructor to please--few approach the task systematically. In Writing Under Pressure, Sanford Kaye, a renowned expert on the subject, presents a system he calls the Quick Writing Process (QWP) that focuses on real-world writing tasks and demonstrates how to produce the clearest, most honest, most powerful work possible under…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/13/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 7.99" wide x 5.39" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Sanford Kaye is a teacher and consultant at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He also teaches in the Harvard University Extension School and is the Director of the Essential Skills Center at Curry College. He co-founded the Writing Program at MIT and was a former Director of the Sloan Fellows Executive Training Program Writing Seminars.



Preface



Qwp: the Quick Writing Process



Preparing



Planning and Generating



Time and Space



Generating the Argument- Outline



Producing the Raw Draft



Producing the Roughly Final Draft



Producing the Final Draft



The Integrated Qwp System



The Writer under Pressure



Applying Qwp: Reader and Writer



Examwriting



Preparing and Planning Research Writing



Generating and Producing Research Writing



Writing for Organizations: the Communication Problem



Improving Organizational Writing



Becoming Independent Writers