The essential Don Murray

lessons from America's greatest writing teacher

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lessons from America's greatest writing teacher

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Cover of: The essential Don Murray
The essential Don Murray: lessons from America's greatest writing teacher
2009, Boynton/Cook Publishers
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Cover of: The essential Don Murray
The essential Don Murray: lessons from America's greatest writing teacher
2009, Boynton/Cook Publishers
in English
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The essential Don Murray: lessons from America's greatest writing teacher
2009, Boynton/Cook Publishers/Heinemann
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Table of Contents

Teach writing as a process not product
Writing as process: how writing finds its own meaning
Write before writing
The daybook
Listening to writing
Voice of the text
Getting under the lightning
Teaching the other self: the writer's first reader
Like Orwell, essaying one's best
Writing badly to write well: searching for the instructive line
A writer's canon revisited
Notes for discussion: Paul Matsuda's creative nonfiction class
Internal revision: a process of discovery
Don still the copy editor
The listening eye: reflections on the writing conference
Don drawing Don
One writer's secrets
Where was I headed when I left?
A writer's geography: one writer at work
Notes on narrative time
Two poems
All writing is autobiography
I still wait for the sheets to move
The importance of making snow.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Portsmouth, NH

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808/.04207
Library of Congress
PE26.M87 E88 2009, PE26.M87E88 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 238 p. :
Number of pages
238

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24073772M
ISBN 10
0867096004
ISBN 13
9780867096002
LCCN
2009033950
OCLC/WorldCat
429024583

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