Writing With Power Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process
by Elbow, PeterFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1981-06-04
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Outlines several approaches to writing, editing, and rewriting, discusses the relationship between the writer and his or her audience, and attempts to define the nature of voice in writing
Table of Contents
| Note to the Reader | p. viii |
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction to the Second Edition | p. xiii |
| Some Essentials | p. 3 |
| An Approach to Writing | p. 6 |
| Freewriting | p. 13 |
| Sharing | p. 20 |
| The Direct Writing Process for Getting Words on Paper | p. 26 |
| Quick Revising | p. 32 |
| The Dangerous Method: Trying to Write It Right the First Time | p. 39 |
| More Ways of Getting Words on Paper | p. 47 |
| The Open-Ended Writing Process | p. 50 |
| The Loop Writing Process | p. 59 |
| Metaphors for Priming the Pump2605 | p. 78 |
| Working on Writing While Not Thinking about Writing | p. 94 |
| Poetry as No Big Deal | p. 101 |
| More Ways to Revise | p. 121 |
| Thorough Revising | p. 128 |
| Revising with Feedback | p. 139 |
| Cut-And-Paste Revising and the Collage | p. 146 |
| The Lost Step: Getting Rid of Mistakes in Grammar | p. 167 |
| Nausea | p. 173 |
| Audience | p. 177 |
| Other People | p. 181 |
| Audience as Focusing Force | p. 191 |
| Three Tricky Relationships to an Audience | p. 199 |
| Writing for Teachers | p. 216 |
| Feedback | p. 237 |
| Criterion-Based Feedback and Reader-Based Feedback | p. 240 |
| A Catalogue of Criterion-Based Questions | p. 252 |
| A Catalogue of Reader-Based Questions | p. 255 |
| Options for Getting Feedback | p. 264 |
| Power in Writing | p. 279 |
| Writing and Voice | p. 281 |
| How to Get Power through Voice | p. 304 |
| Breathing Experience into Words | p. 314 |
| Breathing Experience into Expository Writing | p. 339 |
| Writing and Magic | p. 357 |
| A Select Annotated Bibliography on Publishing | p. 375 |
| Index | p. 379 |
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