Crafting Authentic Voice

Name: Crafting Authentic Voice
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ISBN: 9780325005973

ISBN-10: 0325005974

ISBN-13: 9780325005973

Edition: 2004

Authors: Tom Romano

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A good writer has a distinctive voice. A great writer has an inimitable one. Regardless of subject or place in time or space, good and great writers share one traitthey are true to their personalities, spirits, and characters. How do they do this? How can WE do this as teachers and writers? And how can we show our students what crafting an authentic voice entails? One of our premier writers on the writing process and writing workshop, Tom Romano, tells us. In a compelling and manageable text, he makes the case for giving special time and attention to voice as a means to get students involved and improve their writing, particularly expository writing. Using his own strong voice and…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 1/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.20" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Tom Romano has published numerous bestselling books including Crafting Authentic Voice; Blending Genre, Altering Style; Zigzag; and Writing with Passion (all from Heinemann). A professor at Miami University, Tom teaches writing and language arts methods in the Department of Teacher Education. He is also an instructor at the University of New Hampshire Summer Literacy Institute.




The Delight and Dilemma of Voice


Antipasto: Stopping By Woods After a Bronchoscopy



Reasons to Read



Voice Lessons



Email Admissions



Two Bands



Qualities of Voice


Antipasto: "Poems,"




Qualities of Voice



Information Please



The Appeal of Narrative



Perception and Surprise



Surprise for Whom?



Humor, Lightness, Play



Trust the Gush


Antipasto: Olivia Leads the Way



The Place of Passion



"Outcast,"




How Voice Is Lost



The Five-Paragraph You-Know-What



Of Buts and Burrs and Bad Advice



Grammatically High-Strung



Whatever It Takes: Breaking the Rules in Style



Mischief, Rebellion, Attitude



Many Voices



Imitation



"It's Alive! It's Alive! It's Alive!"



Wear a Mask, Unleash a Voice



The Generative Power of Parallel Structure



"Who Said That?"




Crafting Authentic Voice


Antipasto: Squirming, Fretting, and Fraud



Enter Craft



Making It Rougher



Mind Pictures



Hit Dem Senses



What the Ear Knows



Linguistic Inebriation



Living Leaping Words



Who's Got the Action?



Weeding the Garden



Placement and Payoff



Great Lengths



Get Your Pipe and Blow Doughnuts: The Speed of Metaphor



Ingmar Bergman, Janis Joplin, and Howard Cosell: Allusions to Extend Meaning



Behold This Visage: How Speech Helps Writing



In the Beginning



And in the End



Working Together



Voice and Identity


Antipasto: Huck, Holden, and Talya



The Moves in One Piece



A Small Work I Have to Do



Utmost Essence


Works Cited


Acknowledgments