false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176779025m/653658.jpg 653658 3 If Peter Elbow's <I>Writing Without Teachers</I> seems to have come into being at the same time as '70s encounter groups, that's because it did. First published in 1976, <I>Writing Without Teachers</I> advocates improving your writing via freewriting and the "teacherless writing class." Freewriting, according to Elbow, is a terrific way to get things onto the page that you never knew you had in you: "Never stop ... to wonder what word or thought to use, or to think about what you are doing." Only after you have finished writing should you contemplate editing. And though much of what you produce when freewriting will be real garbage, Elbow promises that the best parts will be far better than anything you could have written otherwise. "You will use up more paper," he warns, "but chew up fewer pencils."<p> The teacherless writing class is Elbow's other key to unlocking the writer within. Elbow prefers these groups to those with teachers, because a teacher, he says, "usually isn't in a position where he can be genuinely affected by your words." In a teacherless group, the other participants "give you better evidence of what is unclear in your writing." Elbow insists that members of a writing group disregard conventional theories of "good" and "bad" writing, urging instead that they react to one another's work in a more subjective manner. The ultimate goal, he says, is for the group process to help each writer improve his or her ability to decide "which parts of [his or her] own writing to keep and which to throw away." <I>--Jane Steinberg</I> 2053452 1975 Writing without Teachers total:65|5:15|4:29|3:17|2:4|1:0| 65 250 120 16 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 15:47:49 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 15:50:04 -0700 2009
I only wish I'd read this before I began teaching composition as he has a very interesting way of teaching the composing process. This would also have been helpful f...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 20:02:54 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 20:05:08 -0800 2009
my teacher says elbow must have been eating acid when he wrote this... i can't say that I disagree. it's theoretically all over the map, but it's real groovy, man... ]]> 3 0 false false Thu Apr 16 05:59:25 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 06:00:49 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Nov 23 11:58:28 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 11:58:35 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 08:54:53 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 08:54:53 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 14 12:13:53 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 12:13:53 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Mar 14 23:55:01 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 23:55:13 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Sep 17 09:02:29 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 09:05:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 19:42:02 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 20:07:45 -0800 2007 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri May 09 00:00:02 -0700 2008 Fri May 09 00:02:26 -0700 2008 I didn't really like his particular style of writing (the text of the book) but the content was valuable to me.]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 10:41:11 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 08:45:59 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 28 19:24:25 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 31 17:14:58 -0700 2008
This book helped me remember that in order to write, I have to produce a lot of bad things first. It cut down the perfectionist in me. Very helpful.]]> 0 0 false false Mon Oct 27 14:06:47 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 14:08:56 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Wed Mar 26 13:42:14 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 12:43:31 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Sat Sep 06 09:06:27 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 09:06:27 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 18:37:05 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 18:37:43 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Sat Nov 21 11:41:19 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 11:41:19 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 01 16:15:16 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 28 09:18:24 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 16:15:16 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 25 20:59:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 20:59:00 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 23:20:30 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 23:20:40 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=653658