Vernacular Eloquence: What Speech Can Bring to Writing

by Peter Elbow

Book Overview

Since the publication of his groundbreaking books Writing Without Teachers and Writing with Power, Peter Elbow has revolutionized how people think about writing. Now, in Vernacular Eloquence, he makes a vital new contribution to both practice and theory. The core idea is simple: we can enlist virtues from the language activity most people find easiest-speaking-for the language activity most people find hardest-writing. Speech, with its spontaneity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199782512
• ISBN13: 9780199782512
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"