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Peter Elbow
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Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow is Professor of English and Director of the writing program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Writing Without Teachers, 2nd Edition
2008 marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of Writing Without Teachers. In this edition, Elbow reexamines his program and the subsequent influence his techniques have had on writers, students, and teachers. This invaluable guide will benefit anyone, whether in the classroom, boardroom, or living room, who has ever had trouble writing.
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Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process
From students and teachers to novelists and poets, Writing with Power reminds us that we can celebrate the uses of mystery, chaos, non-planning, and magic, while achieving analysis, conscious control, explicitness, and care in whatever it is we set down on paper.
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Everyone Can Write: Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing
This new collection of essays brings together the best of Elbow’s writing since the publication of Embracing Contraries in 1987. The volume includes sections on voice, the experience of writing, teaching, and evaluation. Implicit throughout is Elbow’s commitment to humanizing the profession, and his continued emphasis on the importance of binary thinking and non-adversarial argument. The result is sure to be of interest to all professional teachers of writing, and will be a valuable book for use in composition courses at all levels.
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Sharing and Responding
This brief guide continues to help foster a productive environment for group work. The activities in Sharing and Responding move from nonjudgmental kinds of responding to full criticism to help build students confidence and trust. It concludes with a summary of ways of responding and suggestions on how and when they are most useful.
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What is English?
English professor and acclaimed author Peter Elbow’s most recent book, What Is English? explores current issues in the profession of English.
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Being a Writer: a Community of Writers Revisited (03 Edition)
Being A Writer is a brief rhetoric that explores writing processes with an emphasis on their variety; invention, with an emphasis on its playfulness; revision as a technique of invention; collaboration as a means of revision; and personal engagement in academic writing, from literary analysis to argument.
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