Writing with Power Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process

Name: Writing with Power Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process
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ISBN: 9780195120189

ISBN-10: 0195120183

ISBN-13: 9780195120189

Edition: 2nd 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Peter Elbow

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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 difficult at all. Employing a cookbook approach, Elbow provides the reader (and writer) with various recipes: for getting words down on paper, for revising, for dealing with an audience, for getting feedback on a piece of writing, and still other recipes for approaching the mystery of power in writing. In a new introduction, he offers his reflections on the original edition, discusses the responses…

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List price: $21.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/9/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.91" wide x 5.31" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Note to the Reader


Acknowledgments


Introduction to the Second Edition



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 Pump2605



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 Lost 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


A Select Annotated Bibliography on Publishing


Index