Everyone Can Write

This new collection of essays bring together the best of Elbow's writing since the publication of Embracing Contraries in 1987. The volume includes sections on voice, the experience of writing, teaching and evaluation. Implicit throughout is Elbow's commitment to humanizing the profession, and his continued emphasis on the importance of binary thinking and nonadversarial argument. The result is a compendium of a master teacher's thoughts on the relation between good pedagogy
and good writing; it is sure to be of interest to all professional teachers of writing, and will be a valuable book for use in graduate composition courses.

(Oxford)

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Introduction; Part I: Premises and Foundations; 1. Illiteracy at Oxford and Harvard: Reflections on the Inability to Write; 2. A Map of Writing in Terms of Audience and Response; The Uses of Binary Thinking; Part II: The Generative Dimension; 4. Freewriting and the Problem of Wheat and Tares; 5. Closing My Eyes as I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience; 6. Toward a Phenomenology of Freewriting; Part III: Speech, Writing, and Voice; Part III: Speech, Writing, and Voice; 7. The Shifting Relationships Between Speech and Writing; 8. Voice in Literature; 9. Silence: A Collage; 10. What Is Voice in Writing?; Part IV: Discourses; 11. Reflections on Academic Discourse: How It Relates to Freshmen and Colleagues; 12. In Defense of Private Writing; 13. The War Between Reading and Writing - and How to End It; 14. Your Cheatin' Art: A Collage; Part V: Teaching; 15. Inviting the Mother Tongue: Beyond Mistakes, Bad English, and Wrong Language; 16. High Stakes and Low Stakes in Assigning and Responding to Writing; 17. Breathing Life into the Text; 18. Using the Collage for Collaborative Writing; 19. Getting Along Without Grades - and Getting Along With Them Too; 20. Starting the Portfolio Experiment at SUNY Stony Brook Pat Belanoff, co-author; 21. Writing an Assessment in the Twenty-First Century: A Utopian View

(Oxford)