{"title":"Peter Elbow","description":"Peter Elbow is Professor of English and Director of the writing program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.","products":[{"product_id":"writing-without-teachers-paperback","title":"Writing Without Teachers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eWriting Without Teachers\u003c\/em\u003e, well-known advocate of innovative teaching methods Peter Elbow outlines a practical program for learning how to write. His approach is especially helpful to people who get \"stuck\" or blocked in their writing, and is equally useful for writing fiction, poetry, and essays, as well as reports, lectures, and memos.\u003cbr\u003e The core of Elbow's thinking is a challenge against traditional writing methods. Instead of editing and outlining material in the initial steps of the writing process, Elbow celebrates non-stop or free uncensored writing, without editorial checkpoints first, followed much later by the editorial process. This approach turns the focus towards encouraging ways of developing confidence and inspiration through free writing, multiple drafts, diaries, and notes. Elbow guides the reader through his metaphor of writing as \"cooking: \" his term for heating up the creative process where the subconscious bubbles up to the surface and the writing gets good.\u003cbr\u003e 1998 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of \u003cem\u003eWriting Without Teachers\u003c\/em\u003e. In this edition, Elbow reexamines his program and the subsequent influence his techniques have had on writers, students, and teachers. This invaluable guide will benefit anyone, whether in the classroom, boardroom, or living room, who has ever had trouble writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376146284767,"sku":"9780195120165","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/OIa8S7MqZG9780195120165.webp?v=1789214306"},{"product_id":"writing-with-power-techniques-for-mastering-the-writing-process-paperback","title":"Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA classic handbook for anyone who needs to write, \u003cem\u003eWriting With Power\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmploying 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom students and teachers to novelists and poets, \u003cem\u003eWriting with Power\u003c\/em\u003e 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376146841823,"sku":"9780195120189","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/qhHaK9247b9780195120189.webp?v=1789214307"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/peter-elbow.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}