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Writing With Power : Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process
Author: Peter Elbow

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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780195029130 - ISBN-10: 0195029135
Publication Date: 6/4/1981
Pages: 356

Book Description:
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.

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Contents:
I. Some Essentials
1. An Approach to Writing
2. Freewriting
3. Sharing
4. The Direct Writing Process
5. Quick Revising
6. The Dangerous Method: Trying to Write It Right the
First Time
II. More Ways of Getting Words on Paper
7. The Open-ended Writing Process
8. The Loop Writing Process
9. Metaphors for Priming the Pump
10. Working on Writing While Not Thinking
11. Poetry as No Big Deal
III. More Ways to Revise
12. Thorough Revising
13. Revising with Feedback
14. Cut-and-Paste Revising and the Collage
15. The Last Step: Getting Rid of Mistakes in Grammar
16. Nausea
IV. Audience
17. Other People
18. Audience as Focusing Force
19. Three Tricky Relationships to an Audience
20. Writing for Teachers
V. Feedback
21. Criterion-Based Feedback and Reader-Based Feedback
22. A Catalogue of Criterion-Based Questions
23. A Catalogue of Reader-Based Questions
24. Options for Getting Feedback
VI. Power in Writing
25. Writing and Voice
26. How To Get Power through Voice
27. Breathing Experience into Words
28. Breathing Experience into Expository Writing
29. Writing and Magic


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