Oxford University Press , 1986. A collection of essays that explore the conflicting pressures of teaching writing and how to resolve them. Discusses teachers' and students' ideas about authority, instruction, and evaluation. Writing Without Teachers . Oxford University Press , 1973.
Elbow disputes the idea that writers compose linearly from outline to final draft.
He offers another model of the composing process, beginning with free writing and ending with peer review. Integrating School and Community Through Language Arts . Revised Edition of Searching Writing . A Writing Program Across the Curriculum , 2nd ed. The first edition of Active Voice can be credited with helping establish the process approach to teaching writing.