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: 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.