Community of Writers
A Workshop Course in Writing
3rd Edition
Published on 1. September 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
608 pages
978-0-07-303181-1 (ISBN)
Description
This groundbreaking rhetoric/reader is known for its practical, workshop approach. Addressing students as writers, "A Community of Writers" features numerous writing activities and assignments that challenge students to develop their skills by writing often, by exploring their writing processes, and by sharing their writing with others. The third edition features a new design and incorporates expanded treatment of argumentation and research, in-depth coverage of the Internet (including a mini-workshop on composing a web page) and computer-based writing, coverage of visual literacy, more material on drafting, and a variety of new student and professional essays.
More details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
861 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-303181-1 (9780073031811)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Peter Elbow | Patricia Belanoff | Patricia Belanof
A Community of Writers
Book
01/1995
2nd Edition
McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
€32.18
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Persons
Peter Elbow is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Before writing A Community of Writers, he wrote two other books about writing: Writing Without Teachers and Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process. He is author of a book of essays about learning and teaching: Embracing Contraries. He also wrote Oppositions in Chaucer, as well as numerous essays about writing and teaching. His most recent book, What Is English? explores current issues in the profession of English. He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Franconia College, Evergreen State College, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook--where for five years he directed the Writing Program. He served for four years on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association and is now a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. He has given talks and workshops at many colleges and university. He attended Williams College and Harvard University and has an M.A. from Exeter College, Oxford University, and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University. Pat Belanoff is Director of Writing Programs at the State University of New York-Stony Brook. She is president of the SUNY Council on Writing and a member of the College Steering Committee of NCTE. Pat is a co-author (with Besty Rorschach and Mia Oberlink) of The Right Handbook, now in its second edition. She has also co-edited (with Marcia Dickson) Portfolios: Process and Product and (with Peter Elbow and Sheryl Fontaine) Nothing Begins With an N: New Investigations of Freewriting. Pat has a degree in medieval literature from New York University and continues to teach and publish in this area, too.
Content
WorkshopsPart I: Ways of WritingWorkshop 1: An Introduction to the Variety of Writing ProcessesWorkshop 2: From Private to Public WritingWorkshop 3: Collaborative Writing: Dialogue, Loop Writing, and the CollageWorkshop 4: Getting Experience into Words: Image and Story Workshop 5: VoiceWorkshop 6: Drafting and RevisingWorkshop 7: Revision through Purpose and Audience: Writing as Doing Things to PeopleWorkshop 8: Writing in the World: An Interview about WritingPart II: Kinds of WritingWorkshop 9: The EssayWorkshop 10: PersuasionWorkshop 11: ArgumentWorkshop 12: ResearchWorkshop 13: Interpretation as Response: Reading as the Creation of MeaningWorkshop 14: Text Analysis through Examining Figurative LanguageWorkshop 15: Listening, Reading, and Writing in the DisciplinesWorkshop 16: Autobiography and PortfolioMini-WorkshopsPart I: More on Writing and ResearchMini-Workshop A: Writing Skills QuestionnaireMini-Workshop B: Double-Entry or Dialectical Notebooks Mini-Workshop C: The Difference between Grammatical Correctness and a Formal, Impersonal VoiceMini-Workshop D: Midterm and End-Term Responses to a Writing CourseMini-Workshop E: Writing under Pressure: Midterms, Finals, and Other In-Class WritingMini-Workshop F: Doing Research on the WebPart III: EditingMini-Workshop G: The Sentence and End-Stop PunctuationMini-Workshop H: CommasMini-Workshop I: ApostrophesMini-Workshop J: Quotation and the Punctuation of Reported SpeechMini-Workshop K: Spelling Mini-Workshop L: Copyediting and ProofreadingSHARING AND RESPONDINGCover LetterSummary of Kinds of ResponsesProcedures for Giving and Receiving ResponsesFull Explanations of Kinds of Responses -- with SamplesFinal Word: Taking Charge of the Feedback Process by Choosing among these TechniquesSample EssaysWorks CitedAcknowledgmentsIndex