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Title: Write to Learn by Donald Morison Murray ISBN: 0-15-506512-2 Publisher: Heinle Pub. Date: 27 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $46.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A true book on How to Write
Comment: Anyone who is serious about becoming a writer, non-fiction or fiction, should get this book, write in it, highlight the points and study it like they are taking his course.
He starts you out with writing to yourself. Then takes you through each step of the process of preparing what you wrote for the reader.
Murray talks to you like are sitting in front of you. You feel like he can hear your questions, answers them, and then shows you what he is talking about.
The most important part of the whole book is Chapter 9, "'Read' as a Writer". He analyzes today's writers as a writer, a major step to really understanding the craft.
Other writing books tell you about practice sessions, structure, and voice. Murray shows you how to do the work.
Yes it is a very...book, but weather it is a textbook or not, it is a book of valuable information for those of us who can't work at the Boston Globe or go to Harvard--yet our passion to write is very real.
Rating: 5
Summary: Write to Learn, 2nd edition
Comment: Author, Donald M, Murray, practices what he teaches: he writes with a singular voice. I could picture him talking to me in an earnest, friendly way.
I liked the way he led us through his process of writing an article about his grandmother. I also enjoyed reading drafts of his students writings and their finished, successful product. I was enticed to keep reading and therefore learning.
The book has widespread application. My nephew, a college professor, used this as his favorite textbook, yet I adapted the information easily for younger students. It works for both enthusiastic or reticent writers.
I was going to purchase a later edition at our local college bookstore, but found the topics written about were too controversial for my taste and too adult for me to use to teach younger students.
"Write to Learn", 2nd edition, is more than a textbook. It is a LIVING book!
Rating: 5
Summary: great little book-WAY too expensive!!
Comment: I read this book for a college english class. We used the book for its every facet, and I got a lot out of it. The book is divided into chapter like sections that made the writing process seem less complicated. His personal writing style appealed to me as I read through the chapters on the begining of the writing process. I recomend this book to anyone with the urge to become a better, more creative, writer, and to anyone with the money to do so. This book is a small paper back...i don't understand the price ($35.00!).
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Title: The Craft of Revision by Donald M. Murray ISBN: 0155069551 Publisher: Heinle Pub. Date: 13 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Writing Without Teachers by Peter Elbow ISBN: 0195120167 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Writing To Learn by William K. Zinsser ISBN: 0062720406 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Expecting the Unexpected : Teaching Myself - and Others - to Read and Write by Donald M. Murray ISBN: 0867092432 Publisher: Boynton/Cook Pub. Date: March, 1989 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: On Writing Well, 25th Anniversary : The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William K. Zinsser ISBN: 0060006641 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 18 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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