Writing Under Pressure: The Quick Writing Process - Couverture rigide

Kaye, Sanford

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195052234 ISBN 13 : 9780195052237

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1988

Synopsis

This book is based on 20 years of teaching at MIT, Harvard and working with writing clients in government, science and management, among other professions. The author's goal in "Writing Under Pressure" is to provide a book that combines an analysis of the process of writing with a problem-solving approach to enable the writer, whether in school or on the job, to get good writing done on time. The first half of the book presents a case study of a writing assignment with a close deadline. The second half of the book employs two levels of editing; a rough first edit to ensure clarity and a final edit for the reader's ease. The book adapts the system to exam writing, and group writings such as those required in committee work or in professional graduate schools. Finally, there is a writer's bibliography, including excerpts from the diaries, notebooks, letters and interviews of writers about the writing process and product.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Most writing is done under pressure. An executive has to produce a three-page position paper by tomorrow at nine. A department head suddenly has to write a one-page action memo by noon. A graduate student has a twenty-page research paper due in a week. Yet, while most students and professionals write under pressure--with limited time, limited space, and a supervisor or instructor to please--few approach the task systematically. In Writing Under Pressure, Sanford Kaye, a renowned expert on the subject, presents a system he calls the Quick Writing Process (QWP) that focuses on real-world writing tasks and demonstrates how to produce the clearest, most honest, most powerful work possible under the constraints of time and space. A writing instructor with twenty-five years' experience teaching students and professionals in business and government, Kaye tells writers how to budget their time and how to use this time efficiently. Exploring particular writing situations in which QWP can be applied to make the most of what the writer knows, Kaye discusses the process of taking exams, focusing on how instructors select questions and evaluate essays. He also considers writing in business and government, featuring an insightful analysis of a memo written by Colonel Oliver North. This memo highlights one of the most important issues writers in business and government face: whether to write the truth as they see it or simply what their bosses want to hear. Presenting a wealth of such examples, Kaye reveals how to break through stifling organizational codes in order to write memos and position papers that count. While most guides to writing ignore the constraints of time and space, Writing Under Pressure tackles these problems head on, making it an essential reference for students, business professionals, government officials, or anyone else faced with a difficult writing assignment that has to be done now.

Revue de presse

A useful system for getting started and getting finished. (Anne M. Durbin, Bryn Mawr College)

More useful than any comparable writer's handbook for the kind of writing that most students actually have to do. (Paul Teverow, Missouri Southern State College)

Upper division students invariably say that this is the most useful they have encountered in college on how to write. (Dr. Bill M. Donovan, Loyola College in Maryland)

A good book which I will order as an optional reading."Eric Graig, Queens College

Will be enormously helpful to many different kinds of students. It directly and engagingly addresses real writers coping with real tasks, and presents practical solutions to common difficulties....Kaye avoids the egotism and artificiality that plague many who counsel beginning writers; he frees his reader to write independently, responsibly, and effectively in all circumstances. (Prudence L. Steiner, Director, Expository Writing Program, Harvard University Extension School)

This book tells us not just how to write, but how to live....[Kaye's] writer is a jujitsu artist who turns hostile, external pressure into force of feeling and expression. (Joseph G. Mayer, Principal Software Writer, Wang Laboratories, Inc.)

This is the best kind of writing book. Reading it lifts a veil from your eyes as it makes easily understandable those 'hidden' rules we've all occasionally followed, but have rarely if ever verbalized....A time-saver for anybody who writes under pressure. (Luis Hurtado-Sanchez, Integrated Office Systems Manager, Hewlett-Packard Company)

Kaye has done a great service to those of us...who must produce clear, persuasive, and action oriented writing as an essential part of our jobs....A useful and entertaining book. (Thomas J. Kelly, Vice President, IRM, Grumman Corporation)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195052234
• ISBN 13: 9780195052237
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 201
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; Italie