Vernacular Eloquence - What Speech Can Bring to Writing

Zusatztext it is written in [the author's] wonderfully approachable, affable voice; it emphasizes the need to indulge one's own impetus when writing, to pour oneself into "freewrites" ... The book is organized in a unique and purposeful manner ... Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Peter Elbow is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he also directed the Writing Program from 1996 until 2000. He is the author of Writing Without Teachers (Oxford UP 1973), Writing With Power (Oxford UP 1981), Embracing Contraries (Oxford UP, 1986), Everyone Can Write (Oxford UP, 2000), and Being A Writer (McGraw-Hill, 2002). Klappentext A writing guide for the twenty-first century, Vernacular Eloquence explores how the variety of ways the spoken word can enhance the written word, drawing on examples from blogs, email, and other recent trends. Zusammenfassung A writing guide for the twenty-first century, Vernacular Eloquence explores how the variety of ways the spoken word can enhance the written word, drawing on examples from blogs, email, and other recent trends.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Elbow, Elbow Peter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.01.2012
• EAN: 9780199782505
• ISBN: 978-0-19-978250-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > English; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Semantik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Speech, Reden halten: Ratgeber, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Sociolinguistics, Literary studies: general, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Creative writing and creative writing guides, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General