WRITING WITH POWER

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction to the Second Edition xiii

1 SOME ESSENTIALS 3

Introduction: A map of the book 3

Freewriting 13

Sharing 20

The direct writing process for getting words on paper 26

Quick revising 32

The dangerous method: Trying to write it right the first time 39

2 MORE WAYS OF GETTING WORDS ON PAPER 47

Introduction 47

The open-ended writing process 50

The loop writing process 59

Metaphors for priming the pump 78

Working on writing while not thinking about writing

Poetry as no big deal 101

3 MORE WAYS TO REVISE 121

Introduction 121

Thorough revising 128

Revising with feedback 139

Cut-and-paste revising and the collage 146

The last step: Getting rid of mistakes in grammar 167

Nausea 173

4 AUDIENCE 177

Introduction 177

Other people 181

Audience as focusing force 191

Three tricky relationships to an audience 199

Writing for teachers 216

5 FEEDBACK 237

Introduction 237

Criterion-based feedback and reader-based feedback 240

A catalogue of criterion-based questions 252

A catalogue of reader-based questions 255

Options for getting feedback 265

6 POWER IN WRITING 279

Introduction 279

Writing and voice 281

How to get power through voice 304

Breathing experience into words 314

Breathing experience into expository writing 339

Writing and magic 357

A SELECT ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON PUBLISHING PREPARED BY J.C. ARMBRUSTER 375

INDEX 379