Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process - Couverture rigide

Elbow, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195029127 ISBN 13 : 9780195029123

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1981

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Writing with Power is a guide for the student writing an essay, the professional writer working on a story, or the manager writing a memo for a tight deadline. As Elbow explains, "Writing with power doesn't just mean getting power over readers. It means getting power over yourself and over the writing process: knowing what you are doing as you write; figuring out what you really mean; being in charge, having control; not feeling stuck or helpless or intimidated. I am particularly interested in this second kind of power in writing, and I have found that without it you seldom achieve the first kind". For the second edition, Elbow has written a new introduction in which he discusses in detail the "mysterious" dimensions of "Writing with Power" - voice, quality and bad writing, wrongness and felt sense, and sharing written work with others.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Writing with Power is a guide for the student writing an essay, the professional writer working on a story, or the manager writing a memo for a tight deadline. As Elbow explains, `Writing with power doesn't just mean getting power over readers. It means getting power over yourself and over the writing process.' For the second edition, Elbow has written a new introduction in which he discusses in detail the `mysterious' dimensions of `Writing with Power' -- voice, quality and bad writing, wrongness and felt sense, and sharing written work with others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1981
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195029127
• ISBN 13: 9780195029123
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 396
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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