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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.
List of contents
- PART ONE. What's Best in Speaking And Writing?
- Introduction: Defining "Speech" and "Writing"
- 1. Speech and Writing as They Are Used: The Role of Culture
- 2. What's Good about Writing
- 3. Speaking as a Process: What Can It Offer Writing?
- 4. Speech as a Product: Eight Virtues in Careless Spoken Language that Careful Writing Needs
- 5. Intonation: A Virtue for Writing Found at the Root of Everyday Speech
- 6. Can We Really Have the Best of Both Worlds?
- PART TWO. A Role for the Tongue During the Early Stages of Writing: Treating Speech as Writing
- Introduction: More Defining
- 7. What is Speaking Onto the Page and How Does Freewriting Teach it?
- 8. Where Else Do We See Unplanned Speaking onto the Page?
- 9. Objections to Speaking onto the Page--And Responses
- 10. The Need for Care: Unplanned Speaking onto the Page is Never Enough
- PART THREE. A Role for the Tongue During Late Revising: Reading Aloud and Treating Writing as Speech
- Introduction
- 11. Revising by Reading Aloud. What the Mouth and the Ear Know
- 12. How Does Revising by Reading Aloud Actually Work?
- 13. Punctuation: Living with Two Traditions
- 14. Good Enough Punctuation by Reading Aloud and Listening
- 15. How Speech Can Improve Organization in Writing: Form as Energy
- 16. Summary Chapter: The Benefits of Speaking onto the Page and Reading Aloud
- PART FOUR. Vernacular Literacy
- Introduction: Dante and Vulgar Eloquence
- 17. Our Present Culture of Proper Literacy and How It Tries To Exclude Speech
- 18. A New Culture of Vernacular Literacy is on the Horizon
- Appendix I. How Freewriting Went from Dangerous to No Big Deal in the Composition and Rhetoric Community
- Appendix II. A list of Publications Written in Nonprestige Nonstandard Versions of English
- Appendix III. A List of Published Works by Peter Elbow
