Write to Learn (with InfoTrac)

by Murray, Donald M.

• ISBN13: 9781413001730
• ISBN10: 1413001734
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-28
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

WRITE TO LEARN gives you a framework you can use to create original and compelling writing. Donald Murray, with his famous clear and succinct writing style, will show you how to move from an initial idea all the way to a final draft.

Table of Contents

Preface

The View From the Writer's Desk

Craft Not Magic

Make Writing Easy

Unlearn to Write

Write Beside Writers

Write Before Writing

Write Before Writing

The Writer's Memory

Take Note

I Don't Have Anything to Say

Research for Writing

Outline Now or Later

Plan Your Research

Using the Internet by Lisa C. Miller

Ask the Research Question

Begin Writing

Take Your Eye Off the Ball

The Writer's Eye

The Focusing Line

Read the Reader

Keep Writing

Unblocking Writer's Block

Begin a Discovery Draft

Write Out Loud

See Within the Draft

Finish Writing

Your Friend ? The Deadline

Writers Helping Writers

Learning from Writers

Revive a Dead Draft

Revise

Edit

Writing After Graduation

You Want Me to Write What?

New Tasks, New Forms

Explore Creative Nonfiction

A Lifetime Apprenticeship

Index

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