Elbow Peter. Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process

Oxford University Press. 2 edition. 1998. 413 pages. ISBN: 0195120183A 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.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