Writing with power techniques for mastering the writing process
Peter Elbow.
- 2nd ed.
- New York Oxford University Press c1998.
- xxvi, 384 p. 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-377) and index.
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 revising -- 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 quertions -- 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.