Can I read Working at Writing : Columnists and Critics Composing on EtoBox?

Working at Writing : Columnists and Critics Composing by Root, Robert L. is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Working at Writing : Columnists and Critics Composing about?

A survey of the composing processes of seven working writerscolumnist/ essayists Jim Fitzgerald and Kathleen Stocking, political columnists Tom Wicker and Richard Reeves, drama critic Walter Kerr, and film critics David Denby and Neal Gabler Working at Writing offers rich and unique insights into how writing is actually done. The book has three interlocking edited transcripts of interviews with the writers about their composing processes and the composition of specific works, copies of the works discussed in the transcripts, and a series of chapters that analyze the interviews and articles in the context of current research into composing. Through this unusual structure, Root investigates both the ways in which the working practices of the seven writers relate to one another and to current models of composing and the ways in which such a discussion will be of value to others, particularly to student writers and their teachers. By considering the comments of practicing writers and the examples of their compositions and by comparing the evidence of research findings with those examples of practical experience, Root gives student writersand their teachers as wellthe opportunity to bet

Author

Root, Robert L.

Publisher

Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, C1991.

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585186450

Subjects

Reference, Language Learning, Literary Fiction