Writing with power : techniques for mastering the writing process
Record details
- ISBN: 9780195120189
- ISBN: 9780195120172
- ISBN: 0195120183
- ISBN: 0195120175
- ISBN: 9780198028192
- ISBN: 0198028199
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxvi, 384 pages)
remote
Computer data. - Edition: 2nd ed.
- Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, �1998.
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:august.19 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-377) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Some essentials. An approach to writing -- Freewriting -- Sharing -- The direct writing process for getting words on paper -- Quick revising -- The dangerous method: trying to write it right the first time -- More ways of getting words on paper. The open-ended writing process -- The loop writing process -- Metaphors for priming the pump -- Working on writing while not thinking about writing -- Poetry as no big deal -- More ways to revise. Thorough revising -- Revising with feedback -- Cut-and-paste revising and the collage -- The last step: getting rid of mistakes in grammar -- Nausea -- Audience. Other people -- Audience as focusing force -- Three tricky relationships to an audience -- Writing for teachers -- Feedback. Criterion-based feedback and reader-based feedback -- A catalogue of criterion-based questions -- A catalogue of reader-based questions -- Options for getting feedback -- Power in writing. Writing and voice -- How to get power through voice -- Breathing experience into words -- Breathing experience into expository writing -- Writing and magic. |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by EBSCO. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. |