Writers' Workshops & the Work of Making Things
Patterns, Poetry...
Published on 27. June 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-201-72183-6 (ISBN)
Description
For more than 100 years, Writers' Workshops have offered writers deep and generous insights into their own work: insights that have helped them improve, and often inspired them to take their work in exciting new directions. Recently, technical, scientific, and business professionals have also discovered the immense value of the Writers' Workshop format in solving their creative problems. Now, an experienced leader and participant shows how Writers' Workshops work -- and how they can help everyone from poets to software architects. Richard P. Gabriel considers the Writers' Workshop as process, ritual, and experience. He explains what conditions are required to make it work, how to run one, how to participate in one, how to survive one -- and how to use it to further your own work. In the first section of the book, Gabriel introduces a model of writing and the writing process, illuminating the commonalities between writing and other forms of creative expression, such as software development.
Next, he draws on the experiences of participants to illuminate every aspect of the Writers' Workshop, including preparation and setting, the author's reading, shepherding, summarization, positive feedback, suggestions for improvement, clarification, and revisions. Work in Progress introduces the Writers' Workshop to a wide new audience, including: new writers who want to improve fast; veteran workshoppers; technical people and scientists; businesspeople seeking to improve collateral material and presentations; and software practitioners.
Next, he draws on the experiences of participants to illuminate every aspect of the Writers' Workshop, including preparation and setting, the author's reading, shepherding, summarization, positive feedback, suggestions for improvement, clarification, and revisions. Work in Progress introduces the Writers' Workshop to a wide new audience, including: new writers who want to improve fast; veteran workshoppers; technical people and scientists; businesspeople seeking to improve collateral material and presentations; and software practitioners.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
491 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-201-72183-6 (9780201721836)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Poet and computer scientist Richard P. Gabriel, Ph.D., M.F.A., introduced the writers' workshop to the software patterns community. He is the author of Patterns of Software (Oxford University Press, 1996) and Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems (MIT Press, 1985). His poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines.
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Content
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1. Writers' Workshop Overview.
2. Crowd.
I. THE WORK OF MAKING THINGS.
3. Triggers and Practice.
4. Work in Progress.
5. The Gift.
II. WRITERS' WORKSHOP.
6. The Players.
7. The Setting.
8. In Situ.
9. Preparing for the Workshop.
10. Shepherds.
11. The Author Reads.
12. Fly on the Wall.
13. Summarize the Work.
14. Positive Feedback.
15. Suggestions for Improvement.
16.Clarifications.
17. Wrapping Up.
18. Revising the Work.
Coda: The Work of Making Things.
Notes.
Appendix A: Examples.
Appendix B: Writing Workshops Guidelines for Feedback.
References.
Index.
About the Author. 020172183XT05312002
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1. Writers' Workshop Overview.
2. Crowd.
I. THE WORK OF MAKING THINGS.
3. Triggers and Practice.
4. Work in Progress.
5. The Gift.
II. WRITERS' WORKSHOP.
6. The Players.
7. The Setting.
8. In Situ.
9. Preparing for the Workshop.
10. Shepherds.
11. The Author Reads.
12. Fly on the Wall.
13. Summarize the Work.
14. Positive Feedback.
15. Suggestions for Improvement.
16.Clarifications.
17. Wrapping Up.
18. Revising the Work.
Coda: The Work of Making Things.
Notes.
Appendix A: Examples.
Appendix B: Writing Workshops Guidelines for Feedback.
References.
Index.
About the Author. 020172183XT05312002