Vernacular Eloquence: What Speech Can Bring to Writing 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. This simple idea, it turns out, has deep repercussions. Now, in Vernacular Eloquence, he makes a vital new contribution to

Title	:	Vernacular Eloquence: What Speech Can Bring to Writing
Author	:	Peter Elbow
Rating	:	4.53 (856 Votes)
Asin	:	0199782512
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	456 Pages
Publish Date	:	2012-01-13
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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, naturalness of expression, and fluidity of thought, has many overlooked linguistic and rhetorical merits. Through several easy to employ techniques, writers can marshal this "wisdom of the tongue" to produce stronger, clearer, more natural writing. This simple idea, it turns out, has deep repercussions. Our culture of literacy, Elbow argues, functions as though it were a plot against the spoken voice, the human body, vernacular language, and those without privilege-making it harder than necessary to write with comf

Editorial : "Surely some of the best work Elbow has done in his long and brilliant career. Elbow's book talks the talk and walks the walk: it is itself a demonstration of his subtitle--what speech can bring to writing. Bravo to Peter Elbow for this learned, provocative, and forward-looking book." --Andrea A. Lunsford, award-winning author of The St. Martin's Handbook"Whether you aim to improve your own writing, help others improve theirs, understand more about written language, or just want to enjoy enthusiastic, passionate writing at its best, this book is for you. With a disarmingly simple thesis about what spoken language contributes to writing, VernacularEloquence makes major contributions to theory and to practice." --David Barton, author of Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language"What a wonderful, enticing book! As only he can, Peter Elbow explores the intricate relationship between speech and writing with broad learning, bold thinki

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