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Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process
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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 from people who have followed his techniques, how his methods may differ from other processes, and how his original topics are still pertinent to today's writer. By taking risks and embracing mistakes, Elbow hopes the writer may somehow find a hold on the creative process and be able to heighten two mentalities--the production of writing and the revision of it.
From students and teachers to novelists and poets, Writing with Power reminds us that we can celebrate the uses of mystery, chaos, nonplanning, and magic, while achieving analysis, conscious control, explicitness, and care in whatever it is we set down on paper. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Introduction to the Second Edition
I. Some Essentials
ch. 1 An Approach to Writing
ch. 2 Freewriting
ch. 3 Sharing
ch. 4 The Direct Writing Process for Getting Words on Paper
ch. 5 Quick Revisiting
ch. 6 The Dangerous Method: Trying To Write It Right the First Time
II. More Ways of Getting Words On Paper
ch. 7 The Open-ended Writing Process
ch. 8 The Loop Writing Process
ch. 9 Metaphors for Priming the Pump
ch. 10 Working on Writing While Not Thinking about Writing
ch. 11 Poetry as No Big Deal
III. More Ways To Revise
ch. 12 Thorough Revising
ch. 13 Revising with Feedback
ch. 14 Cut-and -Paste Revising and the Collage
ch. 15 The Last Step: Getting Rid of Mistakes in Grammar
ch. 16 Nausea
IV. Audience
ch. 17 Other People
ch. 18 Audience as Focusing Force
ch. 19 Three Tricky Relationships to an Audience
ch. 20 Writing for Teachers
V. Feedback
ch. 21 Criterion-Based Feedback and Reader-Based Feedback
ch. 22 A Catalogue of Criterion-Based Questions
ch. 23 A Catalogue of Reader-Based Questions
ch. 24 Options for Getting Feedback
VI. Power In Writing
ch. 25 Writing and Voice
ch. 26 How To Get Power through Voice
ch. 27 Breathing Experience into Words
ch. 28 Breathing Experience into Expository Writing
ch. 29 Writing and Magic
A Select Annotated Bibliography on Publishing
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 from people who have followed his techniques, how his methods may differ from other processes, and how his original topics are still pertinent to today's writer. By taking risks and embracing mistakes, Elbow hopes the writer may somehow find a hold on the creative process and be able to heighten two mentalities--the production of writing and the revision of it.
From students and teachers to novelists and poets, Writing with Power reminds us that we can celebrate the uses of mystery, chaos, nonplanning, and magic, while achieving analysis, conscious control, explicitness, and care in whatever it is we set down on paper. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Introduction to the Second Edition
I. Some Essentials
ch. 1 An Approach to Writing
ch. 2 Freewriting
ch. 3 Sharing
ch. 4 The Direct Writing Process for Getting Words on Paper
ch. 5 Quick Revisiting
ch. 6 The Dangerous Method: Trying To Write It Right the First Time
II. More Ways of Getting Words On Paper
ch. 7 The Open-ended Writing Process
ch. 8 The Loop Writing Process
ch. 9 Metaphors for Priming the Pump
ch. 10 Working on Writing While Not Thinking about Writing
ch. 11 Poetry as No Big Deal
III. More Ways To Revise
ch. 12 Thorough Revising
ch. 13 Revising with Feedback
ch. 14 Cut-and -Paste Revising and the Collage
ch. 15 The Last Step: Getting Rid of Mistakes in Grammar
ch. 16 Nausea
IV. Audience
ch. 17 Other People
ch. 18 Audience as Focusing Force
ch. 19 Three Tricky Relationships to an Audience
ch. 20 Writing for Teachers
V. Feedback
ch. 21 Criterion-Based Feedback and Reader-Based Feedback
ch. 22 A Catalogue of Criterion-Based Questions
ch. 23 A Catalogue of Reader-Based Questions
ch. 24 Options for Getting Feedback
VI. Power In Writing
ch. 25 Writing and Voice
ch. 26 How To Get Power through Voice
ch. 27 Breathing Experience into Words
ch. 28 Breathing Experience into Expository Writing
ch. 29 Writing and Magic
A Select Annotated Bibliography on Publishing