Writing and personality : finding your voice, your style, your way / John K. DiTiberio and George H. Jensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DiTiberio, John K.

Contributor:

Jensen, George H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship.

Authorship--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'We cannot separate the writer from the writing. Nor should we try. Both our writing process and our writing products need to carry our unique signature, a bit of our personality.' - From Writing and Personality How you write - what works for you and what makes sense to you - depends on who you are, your personality, your preferences, your style of thinking and feeling. If you're extraverted and grounded in your senses, your natural writing style will be far different from the person who tends to be introverted and intuitive. Not only that, how you learn to write will be different as well. Here's a book that taps into the natural strengths of your personality and helps you use those strengths in your writing. Whether you're a student, businessperson, or professional writer, this book will help you: engage your natural writing voice; adapt to styles that are less natural; overcome writer's block; and find the right words for communicating effectively, whatever your assignment.

Contents:

COVER; Contents; Prologue; Part I How Writing Works for You; 1 Your Beginnings as a Writer; 2 Your Present as a Write; Part II Writing Through Personality; 3 Your Preferred Way of Writing; 4 Getting Started: Extraversion and Introversion; 5 Knowing What to Say: Sensing and Intuition; 6 Deciding How to Say It: Thinking and Feeling; 7 Getting It Done: Judging and Perceiving; Part III Sixteen Approaches to Writing; 8 Four Sensing Thinking Approaches to Writing; 9 Four Sensing Feeling Approaches to Writing; 10 Four Intuitive Feeling Approaches to Writing

11 Four Intuitive Thinking Approaches to WritingPart IV Practical Applications; 12 Your Natural Style and Its Consequences; 13 Drafting and Revising; 14 Growing as a Writer; 15 Getting Past Anxiety and Writer's Blocks; 16 Writing for Different Audiences; 17 Collaboration: Writing WithFriends and Enemies; Epilogue; Appendix; Bibliography; Credits; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-222) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-92429-1

0-429-91006-1

0-429-48529-8

1-283-59184-7

9786613904294

1-84940-986-2

1-78049-466-1

9780429485299

OCLC:

811500959