Being A Writer is a brief rhetoric that explores writing processes with an emphasis on their variety; invention, with an emphasis on its playfulness; revision as a technique of invention; collaboration as a means of revision; and personal engagement in academic writing, from literary analysis to argument.


ABOUT THE AUTHORS


Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff codirected the writing program at SUNY Stony Brook. Elbow is the author of Writing with Power and Everyone Can Write: Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing. Belanoff is co-author of The Right Handbook and essays about composition and also about Anglo-Saxon literature.