Life writing is people-centered nonfiction writing. Not just autobiographical or biographical, life writing encompasses a broad range of personal-experience narratives. Life writing can be serious or humorous or both. It can include any kind of subject matter because people are always at the heart of any endeavor. Fred D. White, Ph.D., author of four textbooks on writing, walks the reader through the life writing process from research to composition to revision to marketing.
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Fred D. White received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. Since 1980 has been teaching writing at Santa Clara University, where he is currently Director of the Core Composition Program. In 1997 he received the Louis and Dorina Brutocao Award for Teaching Excellence. In addition to having published numerous essays, scholarly articles, and book reviews, he is the author of four textbooks on writing, most recently The Well-Crafted Argument (Houghton Mifflin Co.), co-authored with Simone Billings, and soon to appear in a second edition.
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Fred White (Ph.D., University of Iowa) has been teaching writing and literature to undergraduates for over thirty years. He is currently professor of English at Santa Clara University in Northern California. In 1997 he won the Louis and Dorina Brutocao Award for Teaching Excellence.
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A survey of 'photo journalism',
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This review is from: LifeWriting: Drawing from Personal Experience to Create Features You Can Publish (Paperback)
Most basic writer's 'how-to' guides advise using personal experience to create memorable writing - but just how is this done? Enter Fred White's LifeWriting, a survey of 'photo journalism' focusing on how personal-experiences narratives can be created. His definition of 'lifewriting' tells how to add zest to topics by injecting a dose of personal experience tinged with personal opinion and values. The individual chapters cover everything from organizing an outline and considering themes to building the body of an essay using life experiences.
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You are about to embark on an intellectually stimulating adventure- that of learning the art of writing emotionally-charged essays based on your experiences or the experiences of others. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
use your daybook, scratch outline, dramatic immediacy, amateur astronomy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Las Vegas, New York, United States, World War, Prefixes Relating, Houghton Mifflin, First Woman, Joan Didion, James Boswell, Writer's Market, Joseph Epstein, Dave Barry, Mark Twain, Oliver Sacks, Marrying Absurd, Second Woman, The Atlantic Monthly, Loren Eiseley Browse Sample Pages:
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