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Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process

Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process
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2
Author:
Peter Elbow
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Release Date:
1998
ISBN-10:
0195120183
ISBN-13:
9780195120189

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About Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process

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…

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