The Craft of Revision

Pulitzer Prize winning author Donald M. Murray takes a lively and inspiring approach to writing and revision that does not condescend but invites the student into the writer's studio. This revision guide covers the entire writing process and is inexpensive enough to supplement any writing course.

Donald M. Murray is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Hampshire

Preface

vii

Write to Rewrite

1

(31)

Why Do We Fear Rewriting?

2

(1)

Write to Rewrite

3

(1)

How Do I Find Something to Write About?

4

(5)

How Do I Create a Discovery Draft?

9

(5)

How Do I Make an Instructor's Idea My Own?

14

(3)

Notes on Writing the Personal Essay

17

(4)

How to Get the Writing Done: Tricks of the Writer's Trade

21

(5)

Interview with a Published Writer

26

(6)

Elizabeth Cooke

Rewrite to Collect

32

(32)

Diagnosis: Too Little Information

34

(4)

The Importance of Information

38

(1)

The Qualities of Effective Information

39

(6)

The Basic Forms of Information

45

(1)

Where Do You Find Information?

46

(8)

Writing with Information

54

(3)

Interview with a Student

57

(7)

Jennifer Erin Bradley-Swift

Rewrite with Voice

64

(21)

What Is Voice?

65

(1)

Hearing Your Own Voice

66

(3)

Diagnosis: No Voice

69

(1)

Hearing the Writer's Voice

70

(4)

Hearing Your Voice

74

(6)

Case History of a Professional Writer

80

(5)

Rewrite to Focus

85

(18)

Diagnosis: No Focus

86

(3)

Say One Thing

89

(5)

Frame Your Meaning

94

(2)

Set the Distance

96

(2)

The Importance of Focus

98

(1)

Interview with a Published Writer

98

(5)

Christopher Scanlan

Rewrite for Form

103

(37)

Form Is Meaning

105

(5)

Diagnosis: Ineffective Form

110

(1)

Form Communicates Meaning

111

(1)

Discovering the Form of the Draft

112

(4)

Design Your Own Form

116

(3)

Case History of a Student Writer

119

(21)

Maureen Healy

Rewrite for Order

140

(14)

Diagnosis: Disorder

141

(3)

Answer the Reader's Questions

144

(2)

Outline after Writing

146

(2)

Interview with a Student Writer

148

(6)

Kathryn S. Evans

Rewrite to Develop

154

(31)

Diagnosis: Superficial

155

(1)

Techniques of Development

156

(4)

Rewriting Starts with Rereading

160

(2)

Read What Isn't Written

162

(6)

Rewrite within the Draft

168

(1)

Emphasize the Significant

169

(2)

Pace and Proportion

171

(2)

A Professional Case History

173

(6)

Interview with a Student Writer

179

(6)

Karen R. Emmerich

Rewrite to Edit

185

(33)

Twenty Ways to Unfinal a Draft

186

(2)

The Attitude of the Editing Writer

188

(2)

Interview Your Draft

190

(4)

Solutions to Common Editing Problems

194

(6)

The Craft of Editing

200

(1)

A Student Case History

201

(17)

Roger LePage Jr.

Reading Your Reader

218

(12)

Why We Need Readers

219

(2)

The Danger of Readers

221

(2)

Reading the Writer in Process

223

(1)

Reading Writing in Process

223

(7)

Rewrite at Work

230

(26)

Tips for Completing Common Workplace Writing Tasks

232

(15)

Interview with a Published Writer

247

(9)

Dana Andrew Jennings

The Craft of Letting Go

256

(7)

Why Writers Don't Let Go

257

(2)

How to Let Go

259

(1)

When You Let Go

260

(3)

Index

263

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The Craft of Revision

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