Writing with power
techniques for mastering the writing process
by Peter Elbow
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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 notdifficult 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 newintroduction, 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...
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Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process
1998, Oxford University Press
in English
1280470453 9781280470455
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Writing with power: techniques for mastering the writing process
1998, Oxford University Press
in English
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0195120175 9780195120172
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Writing with power: techniques for mastering the writing process
1981, Oxford University Press
in English
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Bibliography: p. 375-377.
Includes index.
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