Vernacular Eloquence: What Speech Can Bring to Writing
"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,VernacularEloquencemakes major contributions to theory and to practice." --David Barton, author ofLiteracy: 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 thinking, and a finely tuned sensibility." --Mike Rose, author ofAn Open Language: Selected Writing on Literacy, Learning, and Opportunity"English and speech-communication educators, linguists, cognitive psychologists, and writers will find this book is filled with a multitude of insightful ideas for application-and scholarly research."-Rosalind Horowitz, editor ofTalking Texts:  How Speech and Writing Interact in School Learning"This title should greatly interest English language and linguistics scholars and teachers. Any readers willing either to dig deep or skim and skip will also find fresh ideas and renewed energy for writing." -Library Journal"More philosophically rigorous, more historically nuanced, and more socially engaged...and [...] still delivers the sort of deeply refreshing, commonsensical, practical wisdom about the writing process that has become synonymous with his name." --Rhetoric Review"The book is organized in a unique and purposeful manner...Highly recommended." --Choice