Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process
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 feedback on a piece of writing, and still other
recipes for approaching the mystery of power in writing. In a new
introduction, he offers his reflections on the original edition,
discusses the responses from people who have followed his techniques,
how his methods may differ from other processes, and how his original
topics are still pertinent to today's writer. By taking risks and
embracing mistakes, Elbow hopes the writer may somehow find a hold on
the creative process and be able to heighten two mentalities--the
production of writing and the revision of it. From students and
teachers to novelists and poets, Writing with Power reminds us that we
can celebrate the uses of mystery, chaos, nonplanning, and magic, while
achieving analysis, conscious control, explicitness, and care in
whatever it is we set down on paper.
The Haiku Handbook is the first book to give the reader everything needed to begin writing or teaching haiku. It presents haiku poets writing in English, Spanish, French, German, and five other languages on an equal footing with Japanese poets. Not only are the four great Japanese masters of the haiku represented (Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki) but also several major Western authors not commonly known to have written haiku.
From Research to Manuscript: A Guide to Scientific Writing
From Research to Manuscript, written in simple, straightforward language, explains how to understand and summarize a research project. It is a writing guide that goes beyond grammar and bibliographic formats, by demonstrating in detail how to compose the sections of a scientific paper. This book takes you from the data on your desk and leads you through the drafts and rewrites needed to build a thorough, clear science article. At each step, the book describes not only what to do but why and how. It discusses why each section of a science paper requires its particular form of information, and it shows how to put your data and your arguments into that form. Importantly, this writing manual recognizes that experiments in different disciplines need different presentations, and it is illustrated with examples from well-written papers on a wide variety of scientific subjects.
As a textbook or as an individual tutorial, From Research to Manuscript belongs in the library of every serious science writer and editor.
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