Coming to Terms with Experience through Writing, Scott Oury

by Scott Oury

From the inspiring opening student quotations to the final appendix on punctuation, "Coming to Terms with Experience Through Writing" is an accessible handbook for teachers of composition and a supportive guide for professional and aspiring writers. Scott Oury shows through examples from his thirty years of college teaching what brilliant prose ordinary students can produce when old rules are set aside and they are encouraged to begin with their own experiences, and develop their own distinctive voice.

Genres: Writing

178 pages, Paperback

First published December 14, 2010

About the author

A retired English teacher and former textbook editor, Scott Oury was raised on an Illinois farm and has been writing poetry for nearly five decades. In addition to poems, his works have included essays, occasional pieces, and articles appearing in a variety of diverse publications such as Law & Order Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, HIS Magazine, and the lead essay in "The Longing for a Form: Essays on the Fiction of C. S. Lewis," a book celebrating the influential British writer. He holds an M.A. in English from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, and taught creative writing, composition, drama and poetry for over 30 years at academic institutions including Triton College, Columbia College Chicago, and Mt. Holyoke College.

Oury's first book "Coming to Terms with Experience through Writing" is a guide to experiential writing for both aspiring and professional writers. He currently lives and writes in Tesuque, New Mexico.

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