ISBN Writing With Power book English Hardcover 416 pages

Writing with Power is a guide for the student writing an essay the professional writer working on a story or the manager writing a memo for a tight deadline. As Elbow explains Writing with power doesn't just mean getting power over readers. It means getting power over yourself and over the writing process: knowing what you are doing as you write; figuring out what you really mean; being in charge having control; not feeling stuck or helpless or intimidated. I am particularly interested in this second kind of power in writing and I have found that without it you seldom achieve the first kind. For the second edition Elbow has written a new introduction in which he discusses in detail the mysterious dimensions of Writing with Power - voice quality and bad writing wrongness and felt sense and sharing written work with others.