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(0)Peter Elbow
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This volume is a writing handbook that employs a "cookbook approach". The author offers various "recipes" and advice for writing issues such as -- 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. The author is a proponent of "freewriting"--Or, raw writing, writing without concern for the rules of grammar, and...
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In Writing Without Teachers, well-known advocate of innovative teaching methods Peter Elbow outlines a practical program for learning how to write. His approach is especially helpful to people who get stuck or blocked in their writing, and is equally useful for writing fiction, poetry, and essays, as well as reports, lectures, and memos. The core of Elbow's thinking is a challenge against traditional writing methods. Instead of editing and outlining...
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"Classical rhetoric was originally all about speech; then it took an interest in writing. We are at a kind of mirror moment now. The present field of "composition and rhetoric" has been preoccupied with writing for the last fifty or more years, but finally people are looking again at speech and how it relates to writing. At this moment, then, when we are inheritors of research showing that writing can be thought of as different and yet not different...