Everyone can write : essays toward a hopeful theory of writing and teaching writing / Peter Elbow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elbow, Peter, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Report writing--Study and teaching.

Report writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (500 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays brings together Elbow's theories on teaching writing. The volume includes sections on voice, the experience of writing, teaching, and evaluation.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1 Illiteracy at Oxford and Harvard: Reflections on the Inability to Write; 2 A Map of Writing in Terms of Audience and Response; 3 The Uses of Binary Thinking; 4 Freewriting and the Problem of Wheat and Tares; 5 Closing My Eyes as I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience; 6 Toward a Phenomenology of Freewriting; 7 The Shifting Relationships Between Speech and Writing; 8 Voice in Literature; 9 Silence: A Collage; 10 What Is Voice in Writing?; 11 Reflections on Academic Discourse: How It Relates to Freshmen and Colleagues

12 In Defense of Private Writing: Consequences for Theory and Research13 The War Between Reading and Writing— and How to End It; 14 Your Cheatin' Art: A Collage; 15 Inviting the Mother Tongue: Beyond "Mistakes," "Bad English," and "Wrong Language"; 16 High Stakes and Low Stakes in Assigning and Responding to Writing; 17 Breathing Life into the Text; 18 Using the Collage for Collaborative Writing; 19 Getting Along Without Grades— and Getting Along With Them Too

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-475).

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772401-9

1-4237-2939-0

1-60256-115-X

1-280-45257-9

9786610452576

1-4237-4122-6

0-19-535587-3

1-60256-114-1

OCLC:

475956931