Being a Writer: A Community of Writers Revisited

by Peter Elbow, Pat Belanoff

Being A Writer is a brief rhetoric that explores writing processes with an emphasis on their variety; invention, with an emphasis on its playfulness; revision as a technique of invention; collaboration as a means of revision; and personal engagement in academic writing, from literary analysis to argument.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction

412 pages, Paperback

First published August 19, 2002

About the author

Peter Henry Elbow was an American academic who was a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he also directed the Writing Program from 1996 until 2000.
As a scholar whose published work raised both academic and popular awareness of scholarship within the field of Rhetoric and Composition, Elbow’s research includes theory, practice, and pedagogy. He is one of the pioneers of freewriting.

Reviews

[Helena · Rating 5 out of 5]

Detailed and student-friendly (read: non-preachy) guide to collaborative writing.