This concise introduction to the writing process gives students step-by-step instruction for completing any writing assignment while encouraging the development of key writing skills and individual style. Through practical instruction, exercises, and excerpts, this text helps students become
productive and efficient writers.
Part I: Motive
1. Why Write?
Writing as Vocation
The Difficulty of Writing
Dealing with Difficulty: From Chaos to Consciousness
2. Motivation and the Writing Brain
Motivation and the Theory of Flow
Getting to Flow
Motivation and the Writing
Assignment
Neuroplasticity and the Writing Process
3. Learning to Write
Rhetoric Then and Now
The Teaching and Learning of Language Skills
Language Learning: Grievance and Redress
4. The New Literacy: Craft and Creation
The Dark Side of the Web
Craft and
Creativity
Part II: Method
5. From Mired to Method
The Hallmarks of a Good Method
Technique to the Rescue
Homemade Methods
The Practical Writing Method
Exercises
6. The Prewriting Stage
Step One: The Provisional Outline and Research
Map
Step Two: Research
Step Three: The Working Outline and Rough Draft
Exercises
7. The Writing Stage
The First Draft
The Second Draft
The Final Draft
Exercises
Part II: Concluding Remarks
Part III: Modelling: The Road to Style
8. Basic
Prompts, Patterns, and Modelling Magic
Exercises
9. Precision Modelling
Exercises
10. Ten Challenge Exercises
Exercises
Parting Words
Glossary
Notes
Annotated Bibliography
Works Cited
Index
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Maxine Ruvinsky is a former journalist and professor of journalism. She is an author of three other Oxford University Press textbooks: Practical Grammar, Third Edition (2014); Investigative Reporting in Canada (2008); and Reporting for the Media, Canadian Edition (2011).
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