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The essential Don Murray : lessons from America's greatest writing teacher /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murray, Donald M. (Donald Morison), 1924-2006
Other Authors: Newkirk, Thomas, Miller, Lisa C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook Publishers/Heinemann, [2009]
Subjects:
English philology > Study and teaching.
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching.
Report writing > Study and teaching.
Journalism > Study and teaching.
Journalism > Authorship.
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.