Elbow, Peter
Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process
- ISBN 13:
- 9780195120189
- author:
- Elbow, Peter
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1998
- Pages:
- 416
- Dimensions:
- 20.07 x 2.29 x 13.46 centimetres
- Genre:
- Writing & editing guides
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 4 working days
Description
Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process by Peter Elbow is a practical guide to improving your writing skills. This comprehensive handbook provides recipes for various aspects of the writing process, including getting words down on paper, revising, and dealing with an audience. By employing a cookbook approach, Elbow offers exercises and techniques that can help writers overcome common challenges and achieve analysis, conscious control, explicitness, and care in their work. The book's introduction reflects on its original publication and discusses the responses from people who have followed his techniques, highlighting the enduring relevance of its principles. Elbow's approach encourages writers to take risks and embrace mistakes, which can help them find a hold on the creative process and develop a more nuanced understanding of writing.
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