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Writing With Power

Paperback • 1998 • English • 2. edition

Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process

By Peter Elbow

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About the book

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 feed...Show more

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ISBN

9780195120189

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

1998

Language

English

Edition

2

Original title

Writing With Power

Format

Paperback

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