Pulitzer Prize winning author Donald M. Murray takes a lively and inspiring approach to writing and revision
that does not condescend but invites the student into the writer's studio. This revision guide covers the entire
writing process and is inexpensive enough to supplement any writing course.
Features :
Donald Murray is a pioneer of the writing process, which is reflected by this text.
The Craft of Revision, 4/e expounds on the premise that writing is revision. This book takes the mystery out
of revision.
Table of Contents
1. Write To Rewrite
Why Do We Fear Rewriting?
Write To Rewrite
How Do I Find Something to Write About?
How Do I Create a Discovery Draft?
Notes on writing the Personal Essay
How Do I. Make an Instructor's Idea My Own?
How to Get the Writing Done: Tricks of the Writer's Trade
Interview With a Published Writer: Elizabeth Cooke
2. Rewrite To Collect
Diagnosis: Too Little Information
The Qualities of Effective Information
Fairness
The Basic Forms of Information
Where Do You Find Information?
Attribution
Writing with Information
Collecting for the Academy
Collecting for the Workplace
Interview With a Student Writer: Jennifer Erin Bradley-Swift 69
3. Rewrite With Voice
What is Voice?
Diagnosis: No Voice
Hearing the Writer's Voice
Hearing Your Voice
Your Language or Mine?
The Voice of the Draft
Voice in the Academy
Voice in the Workplace
Case History of a Professional Writer
4. Rewrite To Focus
Diagnosis: No Focus
The Elements of an Effective Voice
After the Diagnosis in Neutral
Say One Thing
The Importance of Focus
Focussing in the Academy
Focussing in the Workplace
Interview With a Published Writer: Christopher Scanlan
5. Rewrite For Form
Form Is Meaning
Diagnosis: Ineffective Form
Design Your Own Form
Form in the Academy
Form in the Workplace
Case History of a Student Writer: Maureen Healy
6. Rewrite For Order
Diagnosis: Disorder
Order in the Academy
Order in the Workplace
Interview With a Student Writer: Kathryn S. Evans
7. Rewrite To Develop
Diagnosis: Superficial
Techniques of Development
Developing With Authority
Developing with Clarity
Rewriting Starts with Rereading
Read What Isn't Written
Rewrite Within the Draft
Pace and Proportion
Developing in the Academy
Developing in the Workplace
A Professional Case History
Interview With a Student Writer: Karen R. Emmerich
8. Rewrite To Edit
Twenty Ways to Unfinal A Draft
The Attitude of the Editing Writer
Solutions to Common Editing Problems
The Craft of Editing
Editing in the Academy
Editing in the Workplace
A student Case History: Roger LePage, Jr.
9. Reading While Writing
Why We Need Readers
The Danger of Readers
Reading The Writer in Process
Reading Writing in Process
Reading in the Academy
Reading in the Workplace
10. Rewrite At Work
Tips for Completing Common Workplace Writing Tasks
Interview with a Published Writer: Dana Andrew Jennings
11. The Craft Of Letting Go
Why Writers Don't Let Go
How to Let Go
When You Let Go
