Title:
Writing with power : techniques for mastering the writing process
Author:
Elbow, Peter.
ISBN:
9780195120172
9780195120189
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, c1998.
Physical Description:
xxvi, 384 p. ; 22 cm.
General Note:
Previous ed.: 1981.
Contents:
I. Some Essentials -- II. More Ways of Getting Words on Paper -- III. More Ways to Revise -- IV. Audience -- V. Feedback -- VI. Power in Writing -- A Select Annotated Bibliography on Publishing / J. C. Armbruster.
Abstract:
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 todays writer.
Electronic Access:
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0604/97045556-d.htmlContributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/97045556-b.html