Everyone can write : essays toward a hopeful theory of writing and teaching writing

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Author:

Elbow, Peter.

ISBN:

9780195104165

Personal Author:

Elbow, Peter.

Publication Information:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 475 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Pt. I. Premises and Foundations. 1. Literacy at Oxford and Harvard: Reflections on the Inability to Write. 2. A Map of Writing in Terms of Audience and Response. 3. The Uses of Binary Thinking -- Pt. II. The Generative Dimension. 4. Freewriting and the Problem of Wheat and Tares. 5. Closing My Eyes as I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience. 6. Toward a Phenomenology of Freewriting -- Pt. III. Speech, Writing, and Voice. 7. The Shifting Relationships Between Speech and Writing. 8. Voice in Literature. 9. Silence: A Collage. 10. What Is Voice in Writing? -- Pt. IV. Discourses. 11. Reflections on Academic Discourse: How It Relates to Freshmen and Colleagues. 12. In Defense of Private Writing: Consequences for Theory and Research. 13. The War Between Reading and Writing - and How to End It. 14. Your Cheatin' Art: A Collage -- Pt. V. Teaching. 15. Inviting the Mother Tongue: Beyond "Mistakes," "Bad English;' and "Wrong Language".

16. High Stakes and Low Stakes in Assigning and Responding to Writing. 17. Breathing Life into the Text. 18. Using the Collage for Collaborative Writing.

Subject Term:

English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.

Report writing -- Study and teaching.

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Summary

With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing. His process method--and its now commonplace "free writing" techniques--liberated generations of students and teachers from the emphasis on formal principles of grammar that had dominated composition pedagogy.

This new collection of essays brings together the best of Elbow's writing since the publication of Embracing Contraries in 1987. The volume includes sections on voice, the experience of writing, teaching, and evaluation. Implicit throughout is Elbow's commitment to humanizing the profession, and his continued emphasis on the importance of binary thinking and nonadversarial argument. The result is a compendium of a master teacher's thought on the relation between good pedagogy and good writing; it is sure to be of interest to all professional teachers of writing, and will be a valuable book for use in composition courses at all levels.