Writing with power : techniques for mastering the writing process / Peter Elbow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elbow, Peter, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric.

English language.

Report writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; Introduction to the Second Edition; I. SOME ESSENTIALS; II. MORE WAYS OF GETTING WORDS ON PAPER; III. MORE WAYS TO REVISE; IV. AUDIENCE; V. FEEDBACK; VI. POWER IN WRITING; A Select Annotated Bibliography on Publishing prepared; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-377) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-772699-2

0-19-974104-2

1-4237-3907-8

1-280-47045-3

0-19-802819-9

1-60256-281-4

OCLC:

475956551