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Preface | vii | |
Chapter 1 | Write to Rewrite | 1 |
Why Do We Fear Rewriting? | 2 | |
Write to Rewrite | 3 | |
How Do I Find Something to Write About? | 4 | |
How Do I Create a Discovery Draft? | 9 | |
How Do I Make an Instructor's Idea My Own? | 14 | |
Notes on Writing the Personal Essay | 17 | |
How to Get the Writing Done: Tricks of the Writer's Trade | 21 | |
Interview with a Published Writer: Elizabeth Cooke | 26 | |
Chapter 2 | Rewrite to Collect | 32 |
Diagnosis: Too Little Information | 34 | |
The Importance of Information | 38 | |
The Qualities of Effective Information | 39 | |
The Basic Forms of Information | 45 | |
Where Do You Find Information? | 46 | |
Writing with Information | 54 | |
Interview with a Student Writer: Jennifer Erin Bradley-Swift | 57 | |
Chapter 3 | Rewrite with Voice | 64 |
What Is Voice? | 65 | |
Hearing Your Own Voice | 66 | |
Diagnosis: No Voice | 69 | |
Hearing the Writer's Voice | 70 | |
Hearing Your Voice | 74 | |
Case History of a Professional Writer | 80 | |
Chapter 4 | Rewrite to Focus | 85 |
Diagnosis: No Focus | 86 | |
Say One Thing | 89 | |
Frame Your Meaning | 94 | |
Set the Distance | 96 | |
The Importance of Focus | 98 | |
Interview with a Published Writer: Christopher Scanlan | 98 | |
Chapter 5 | Rewrite for Form | 103 |
Form Is Meaning | 105 | |
Diagnosis: Ineffective Form | 110 | |
Form Communicates Meaning | 111 | |
Discovering the Form of the Draft | 112 | |
Design Your Own Form | 116 | |
Case History of a Student Writer: Maureen Healy | 119 | |
Chapter 6 | Rewrite for Order | 140 |
Diagnosis: Disorder | 141 | |
Answer the Reader's Questions | 144 | |
Outline after Writing | 146 | |
Interview with a Student Writer: Kathryn S. Evans | 148 | |
Chapter 7 | Rewrite to Develop | 154 |
Diagnosis: Superficial | 155 | |
Techniques of Development | 156 | |
Rewriting Starts with Rereading | 160 | |
Read What Isn't Written | 162 | |
Rewrite within the Draft | 168 | |
Emphasize the Significant | 169 | |
Pace and Proportion | 171 | |
A Professional Case History | 173 | |
Interview with a Student Writer: Karen R. Emmerich | 179 | |
Chapter 8 | Rewrite to Edit | 185 |
Twenty Ways to Unfinal a Draft | 186 | |
The Attitude of the Editing Writer | 188 | |
Interview Your Draft | 190 | |
Solutions to Common Editing Problems | 194 | |
The Craft of Editing | 200 | |
A Student Case History: Roger LePage Jr. | 201 | |
Chapter 9 | Reading Your Reader | 218 |
Why We Need Readers | 219 | |
The Danger of Readers | 221 | |
Reading the Writer in Process | 223 | |
Reading Writing in Process | 223 | |
Chapter 10 | Rewrite At Work | 230 |
Tips for Completing Common Workplace Writing Tasks | 232 | |
Interview with a Published Writer: Dana Andrew Jennings | 247 | |
Chapter 11 | The Craft of Letting Go | 256 |
Why Writers Don't Let Go | 257 | |
How to Let Go | 259 | |
When You Let Go | 260 | |
Index | 263 |
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