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"In Writing Without Teachers, well-known advocate of innovative teaching methods Peter Elbow outlines a practical program for learning how to write. His approach is especially helpful to people who get 'stuck' or blocked in their writing, and is equally useful for writing fiction, poe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Elbow, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [1998]
Edición:Second edition.
Temas:
English language > Rhetoric > Programmed instruction.
Report writing > Programmed instruction.
Anglais (Langue) > Rhétorique > Enseignement programmé.
Rapports > Rédaction > Enseignement programmé.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
English language > Rhetoric
Report writing
Kreatives Schreiben
Programmed instructional materials
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Freewriting Exercises. How freewriting exercises help
  • Freewriting and garbage
  • Keep a freewriting diary
  • Using freewriting exercises for finding subjects to write about
  • Producing a finished piece of writing
  • 2. The Process of Writing-Growing. Autobiographical digression
  • It makes a difference in practice
  • Growing
  • Start writing and keep writing
  • Chaos and disorientation
  • Emerging center of gravity
  • Editing
  • Growing as a developmental process
  • 3. The Process of Writing-Cooking. Cooking as interaction between people
  • Cooking as interaction between ideas
  • Cooking as interaction between words and ideas, between immersion and perspective
  • Cooking as interaction between metaphors
  • Cooking as interaction between genres and modes
  • Cooking as interaction between you and symbols on paper
  • Noncooking
  • Desperation writing
  • The goal is cooking
  • Cooking and energy
  • Goodness and badness
  • Why the old, wrong model of writing persists
  • Conclusion
  • 4. The Teacherless Writing Class. Setting up the class
  • Giving movies of your mind
  • Further advice to readers
  • Advice to the writer on listening
  • The class process
  • 5. Thoughts on the Teacherless Writing Class. How I came to this approach
  • Huh?
  • Why the teacherless class helps make writing easier
  • Why the teacherless class helps make writing better
  • People learn from the truth, even though the truth is a mess
  • The process of learning writing
  • What about grammar?
  • The yogurt model
  • Subjective bullshit
  • Multiple-choice diary
  • Appendix Essay: The Doubting Game and the Believing Game-An Analysis of the Intellectual Enterprise
  • The monopoly of the doubting game
  • The truth about meaning and words
  • Short digression on the New Critics
  • Why the doubting game doesn't work with assertions of meaning
  • The believing muscle
  • Meaning-making as gestalt-making
  • The myth of the laboratory rat
  • Believing and doubting as dialetics
  • The two dialectics as games
  • The believing game in action: fighting the itch for closure
  • The two games as reinforcers of different character traits
  • Fears of the believing game
  • Speculations on the history of the believing game
  • Conclusion: the interdependence of the two games
  • Appendix: A Couple of Notes to Myself
  • Works Cited
  • A Few Books to Help with Correct Usage
  • Reminders to Keep in View
  • During a Teacherless Writing Class.

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