Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process - Hardcover

Elbow, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195029127 ISBN 13: 9780195029123

Publisher: 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.

About this title

Synopsis

Outlines several approaches to writing, editing, and rewriting, discusses the relationship between the writer and his or her audience, and attempts to define the nature of voice in writing.

About the Author

Peter Elbow is Professor of English at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195029127
• ISBN 13: 9780195029123
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 396