The essential Don Murray
Subtitle: lessons from America's greatest writing teacher
By: Don Murray ; edited by Thomas Newkirk and Lisa C. Miller ; afterword by Chip Scanlan, Poynter Institute.
Contributors: Newkirk, Thomas.; Miller, Lisa C.; Murray, Donald Morison, 1924-2006.
Publisher: Boynton/Cook Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780867096002
Subjects: English philology -- Study and teaching; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching; Report writing -- Study and teaching; Journalism -- Study and teaching; Journalism -- Authorship
Notes: "This collection will allow a new generation of writing teachers and aspiring writers to appreciate both the utility and depth of Don's work. We also believe that a healthy rereading of his work will establish his significance at a time when he has been marginalized by the field of composition that he helped create, an exclusion that he felt keenly in the last decade of his life."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Teach writing as a process not product; title: Writing as process: how writing finds its own meaning; title: Write before writing; title: The daybook; title: Listening to writing; title: Voice of the text; title: Getting under the lightning; title: Teaching the other self: the writer's first reader; title: Like Orwell, essaying one's best; title: Writing badly to write well: searching for the instructive line; title: A writer's canon revisited; title: Notes for discussion: Paul Matsuda's creative nonfiction class; title: Internal revision: a process of discovery; title: Don still the copy editor; title: The listening eye: reflections on the writing conference; title: Don drawing Don; title: One writer's secrets; title: Where was I headed when I left?; title: A writer's geography: one writer at work; title: Notes on narrative time; title: Two poems; title: All writing is autobiography; title: I still wait for the sheets to move; title: The importance of making snow.