Crafting Authentic Voice

In a compelling and manageable text, the author makes the case for giving special time and attention to voice as a means to get students involved and improve their writing.

Tom Romano has taught writing for more than 30 years. He currently teaches writing and language arts methods in the Department of Teacher Education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio

Part I: The Delight and Dilemma of Voice

1

(20)

Antipasto: Stopping By Woods After a Bronchoscopy

3

(18)

1: Reasons to Read

5

(5)

2: Voice Lessons

10

(6)

3: Email Admissions

16

(3)

4: Two Bands

19

(2)

Part II: Qualities of Voice

21

(22)

Antipasto: "Poems," by Gary Gildner

23

(20)

5: Qualities of Voice

24

(1)

6: Information Please

25

(4)

7: The Appeal of Narrative

29

(4)

8: Perception and Surprise

33

(3)

9: Surprise for Whom?

36

(3)

10: Humor, Lightness, Play

39

(4)

Part III: Trust the Gush

43

(80)

Antipasto: Olivia Leads the Way

45

(78)

11: The Place of Passion

48

(4)

12: "Outcast," by Lorie Barnhart

52

(2)

13: How Voice Is Lost

54

(6)

14: The Five-Paragraph You-Know-What

60

(10)

15: Of Buts and Burrs and Bad Advice

70

(2)

16: Grammatically High-Strung

72

(5)

17: Whatever It Takes: Breaking the Rules in Style

77

(10)

18: Mischief, Rebellion, Attitude

87

(4)

19: Many Voices

91

(8)

20: Imitation

99

(9)

21: "It's Alive! It's Alive! It's Alive!"

108

(2)

22: Wear a Mask, Unleash a Voice

110

(3)

23: The Generative Power of Parallel Structure

113

(8)

24: "Who Said That?" by David Schuster

121

(2)

Part IV: Crafting Authentic Voice

123

(78)

Antipasto: Squirming, Fretting, and Fraud

125

(76)

25: Enter Craft

126

(2)

26: Making It Rougher

128

(2)

27: Mind Pictures

130

(6)

28: Hit Dem Senses

136

(4)

29: What the Ear Knows

140

(7)

30: Linguistic Inebriation

147

(2)

31: Living Leaping Words

149

(8)

32: Who's Got the Action?

157

(3)

33: Weeding the Garden

160

(6)

34: Placement and Payoff

166

(4)

35: Great Lengths

170

(5)

36: Get Your Pipe and Blow Doughnuts: The Speed of Metaphor

175

(6)

37: Ingmar Bergman, Janis Joplin, and Howard Cosell: Allusions to Extend Meaning

181

(3)

38: Behold This Visage: How Speech Helps Writing

184

(3)

39: In the Beginning

187

(6)

40: And in the End

193

(6)

41: Working Together

199

(2)

Part V: Voice and Identity

201

(18)

Antipasto: Huck, Holden, and Talya

203

(16)

42: The Moves in One Piece

206

(7)

43: A Small Work I Have to Do

213

(3)

44: Utmost Essence

216

(3)

Works Cited

219

(6)

Acknowledgments

225

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