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 a new introduction, he offers his reflections on the original edition, discusses the responses from people who have followed his techniques, how his methods may differ from other processes, and how his original topics are still pertinent to todays writer.
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Unorthodox & Helpful,
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This review is from: Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process (Hardcover)
In Writing with Power, Peter Elbow shares several of his thoughts on techniques for everyone and anyone who writes. Divided into several sections with titles of "Audience" and "Feedback," Elbow walks writers through every step of the writing process, including thoughts on relieving writer's block, sharing individual writing with others, and several different types of actual writing processes and revision. His unorthodox approach to teaching how to write is something that inevitably spills over into this book. Personally, I found this book to be very useful in my own personal writing. I never would have considered giving myself a set amount of time to get something done (and stopping when that time is over) or adding a dialogue to a serious paper. I would also have never given myself permission to "waste" my time on something as frivolous as freewriting to get my mind going. Writing with Power is easy to read and highly enjoyable. His suggestions are valuable and very applicable to every kind of writing. Elbow is not afraid to go out on a limb in his own writing, which only serves as proof that Elbow "practices what he preaches" - and that it can work in daily writing.
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A suggestive, practical, thoughtful aid to writers,
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This review is from: Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process (Galaxy Books) (Paperback)
Dr. Elbow augments the usual writing suggestions by exploring the impact writing has on the reader. He reaches levels of aid and analysis that can't easily be put into words, but rather felt. After reading this book I couldn't wait to apply this insight to my next professional document. I was also able to give clearer guidelines to my collaborators to improve the value of their feedback to me.
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A sane, guiding mentor for an often painful process,
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This review is from: Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process (Hardcover)
Peter Elbow gave me permission to write and helped shut down the internal editors in my head. If you're stuck, read this book. He's the best writing teacher I've never had!
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