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Community of Writers Peter Elbow

Community of Writers By Peter Elbow

Community of Writers by Peter Elbow

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Addressing students as writers, this work features numerous writing activities and assignments that aim to challenge students to develop their skills by writing often, by exploring their writing processes, and by sharing their writing with others. It also covers the Internet and computer-based writing, coverage of visual literacy, and more.

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Community of Writers: A Workshop Course in Writing by Peter Elbow

This groundbreaking rhetoric/reader is known for its practical, workshop approach. Addressing students as writers, A Community of Writers features numerous writing activities and assignments that challenge students to develop their skills by writing often, by exploring their writing processes, and by sharing their writing with others. The third edition features a new design and incorporates expanded treatment of argumentation and research, in-depth coverage of the Internet (including a mini-workshop on composing a web page) and computer-based writing, coverage of visual literacy, more material on drafting, and a variety of new student and professional essays.

About Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Before writing A Community of Writers, he wrote two other books about writing: Writing Without Teachers and Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process. He is author of a book of essays about learning and teaching: Embracing Contraries. He also wrote Oppositions in Chaucer, as well as numerous essays about writing and teaching. His most recent book, What Is English? explores current issues in the profession of English. He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Franconia College, Evergreen State College, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook--where for five years he directed the Writing Program. He served for four years on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association and is now a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. He has given talks and workshops at many colleges and university. He attended Williams College and Harvard University and has an M.A. from Exeter College, Oxford University, and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University. Pat Belanoff is Director of Writing Programs at the State University of New York-Stony Brook. She is president of the SUNY Council on Writing and a member of the College Steering Committee of NCTE. Pat is a co-author (with Besty Rorschach and Mia Oberlink) of The Right Handbook, now in its second edition. She has also co-edited (with Marcia Dickson) Portfolios: Process and Product and (with Peter Elbow and Sheryl Fontaine) Nothing Begins With an N: New Investigations of Freewriting. Pat has a degree in medieval literature from New York University and continues to teach and publish in this area, too.

Table of Contents

WorkshopsPart I: Ways of WritingWorkshop 1: An Introduction to the Variety of Writing ProcessesWorkshop 2: From Private to Public WritingWorkshop 3: Collaborative Writing: Dialogue, Loop Writing, and the CollageWorkshop 4: Getting Experience into Words: Image and Story Workshop 5: VoiceWorkshop 6: Drafting and RevisingWorkshop 7: Revision through Purpose and Audience: Writing as Doing Things to PeopleWorkshop 8: Writing in the World: An Interview about WritingPart II: Kinds of WritingWorkshop 9: The EssayWorkshop 10: PersuasionWorkshop 11: ArgumentWorkshop 12: ResearchWorkshop 13: Interpretation as Response: Reading as the Creation of MeaningWorkshop 14: Text Analysis through Examining Figurative LanguageWorkshop 15: Listening, Reading, and Writing in the DisciplinesWorkshop 16: Autobiography and PortfolioMini-WorkshopsPart I: More on Writing and ResearchMini-Workshop A: Writing Skills QuestionnaireMini-Workshop B: Double-Entry or Dialectical Notebooks Mini-Workshop C: The Difference between Grammatical Correctness and a Formal, Impersonal VoiceMini-Workshop D: Midterm and End-Term Responses to a Writing CourseMini-Workshop E: Writing under Pressure: Midterms, Finals, and Other In-Class WritingMini-Workshop F: Doing Research on the WebPart III: EditingMini-Workshop G: The Sentence and End-Stop PunctuationMini-Workshop H: CommasMini-Workshop I: ApostrophesMini-Workshop J: Quotation and the Punctuation of Reported SpeechMini-Workshop K: Spelling Mini-Workshop L: Copyediting and ProofreadingSHARING AND RESPONDINGCover LetterSummary of Kinds of ResponsesProcedures for Giving and Receiving ResponsesFull Explanations of Kinds of Responses -- with SamplesFinal Word: Taking Charge of the Feedback Process by Choosing among these TechniquesSample EssaysWorks CitedAcknowledgmentsIndex

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CIN007303181XG
9780073031811
007303181X
Community of Writers: A Workshop Course in Writing by Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
Used - Good
Paperback
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
19991016
608
N/A
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