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Jerry Lanson - Writing for Others, Writing for Ourselves

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Writing for Others, Writing for Ourselves

2010

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Writing Examples S. 173-174

„… 173Many of the writing samples in the pages that follow are my own, in part because this is a book …” „… published)Times-Picayune (New Orleans)USA TodayWall Street JournalWashington PostWriting Examples174 Writing …”

Chapter 2: A Little Jazz S. 9-14

„… to tap your inner creative self and stretch your writ-ing muscles than finding that perfect place to …” „… think.I used to enjoy writing about as much as I enjoyed my older daughter Betsy’s first clarinet recital …” „… . Petersburg, Florida, in the early eighties, where I met my first “writing doctor.”“Doctor,” I blurted out …”

Notes S. 169-172

„… Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (New York: Anchor Books, 1995), xxvi. 2. William Zinsser …” „… , On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, 25th anniversary ed. (New York: Quill, 2001 …” „… ), 49.CHAPTER 2: A LITTLE JAZZ 1. Peter Elbow, Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing …”

Index S. 175-182

„… Arlington National Cemetery, 4The Art and Craft of Feature Writing (Blundell), 45, 59, 62articles, 107“The …” „… Bertrand, Sophie, 101–2, 109–11Best Newspaper Writing 1997 (book), 123Binder, Jan, 63, 70Bird by Bird …” „… Art and Craft of Feature Writing, 45, 59, 62Boets, Philippe, 60bookending, 22–23, 123Boston Globe, 49 …”

Chapter 1: Finding a Place—and Space—to Think S. 1-8

„… options. I could contemplate my computer keyboard until something struck me (serious writing, any serious …” „… “repetitive stress writing.” It is noninsurable illness, triggered when the brain shuts down and fingers type …” „… better chance of surfacing to help me solve a story’s problems. (A writing coach I know calls this …”

Preface

„… Writing for Others, Writing for OurselvesROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC.Lanham • Boulder …” „… • New York • Toronto • Plymouth, UKWriting for Others, Writing for OurselvesTelling Stories in an Age …” „… Cataloging-in-Publication DataLanson, Jerry. Writing for others, writing for ourselves : telling stories in an age of …”

Chapter 8: Honing the Focus S. 65-72

„… 65A strong storyline needs to be concise, arousing, and expressible in a sentence or two.—Writing …” „… writing.What Stepp calls that “expressible sentence or two” has another name. It is called a focus statement or …” „… about a blocked writer who teaches writing for a living.2. A story about a man who keeps banging into …”

Chapter 3: Culling Life’s Experience S. 15-24

„… castle region west of Provence, I hadn’t planned on writing a thing. But our white-knuckle drive on roads …” „… On Writing Well. “This is the personal transaction that’s at the heart of good nonfiction writing.”1 …” „… succinct, self-disciplined clarity of a well-crafted story. Writing from personal experience can also solve …”

Chapter 13: Organizing Stories S. 119-146

„… resolved, warns Jon Franklin, in his book Writing for Story. “A story consists of a sequence of actions …” „… a symmetry to reading and writing that, as I get older, I realize may just be part of how we’re …” „… to teaching feature writing, it won’t lead you through a dozen or more story types with names such as …”

Chapter 15: Finding a Niche S. 155-164

„… that blogging has opened up new dimensions in her writing. “It’s so freeing and so different.” Kelly …” „… knew she’d need to culti-vate this looser, more personal style in writing a memoir.The changing …” „… reductions in well-paid, freelance work. New forms of writing, often shorter, sassier, interlinked, and …”

Chapter 6: Finding Fresh Stories S. 43-56

„… of self-publishers and the professionally published. Aware that no piece of writing can be any better …” „… is to us?” asks William Blundell, in his book The Art and Craft of Feature Writing. “That’s the nut …” „… , trying to do some writing.“I can move it if you want,” my neighbor said. His name is Wei Ziqi, and he had …”

Chapter 14: No One Gets It Right the First Time S. 147-154

„… amateurs, whether writ-ing for a high-end magazine or a low-impact personal blog, the chance to redraft is …” „… course.Donald Fry, a scholar and former dean turned journalism writing coach, has defined voice as “the sum of …” „… write professionally or as a hobby professionals or ama-teurs, whether writing for a high-end magazine …”

Chapter 11: Six-Word Headlines, Ten-Point Outlines S. 101-112

„… writing came easily. It helped that the weekend re-mained vivid and fresh. But it also helped that the …” „… headlines and simple outlines can go a long way to-ward streamlining the writing process.The rules of …” „… headline writing are simple enough. Headlines should feed off a dynamic or “active” verb and, obviously …”

Chapter 12: Drafting Fast S. 113-118

„… , underline illuminat-ing details, and earmark important facts. That’s when it is time, as writing coach Don …” „… . “For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous,” she writes. “In fact, the only …” „… boldness, creativity, and confidence in writing that has disappeared by the time they get to high school …”

Chapter 7: Reconnaissance S. 57-64

„… merely before they start writing but also before they do their most intense research. The parallel is …” „… Writing Well. “Decide what corner of your subject you’re going to bite off, and be content to cover it …” „… well.”1Identifying and reducing the scale of a writing project begins with the title of this chapter …”

Chapter 5: The Passive Observer at Work S. 35-42

„… writer’s palette that will help color bigger works later on.Before I send my feature-writing students out …” „… , too.)ACTION SHOWS CHARACTERNonfiction writing feeds off of what people do and what those actions say about who …” „… writing muscles. What details show and what merely characterize? Did I choose the right verb? How do I …”

Postscript S. 165-168

„… bring on the resurgence of another lost art in this age of Tweets and Instant Chat: letter writing …” „… visitor at our house. And, of course, I am still writing about her, in blogs that sometimes stay in the …” „… paralyzes my writing process either. She enriches it—along 166 Postscript Postscript 167with my life. I …”

Chapter 10: Bring Back the Breed of the Dog S. 85-100

„… his words must be as honest and accurate as they are dramatic and engaging; that, in writing …” „… the writer can unearth what writing coach Don Fry has called the “gold coins” of reporting, the …” „… , still writing novels and nonfiction about the region’s charms, its cuisine and its people. But Peter …”

Chapter 4: Gathering String S. 25-34

„… clearer. Some writing coaches call this process gathering string.A nonfiction writer’s string can come …” „… , “Why are you here?”Practice is a big part of the craft of observing, research, and writing. The Boston …” „… author writes not of a “donut box” but of a “Krispy Kreme box.” Such specificity anchors writing. It …”

About the Author S. 183

„… department’s first chair from 1999 to 2005. He is the coauthor of two books, Writing and Reporting the News …”

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Laura J. Shepherd - The Self, and Other Stories

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Laura J. Shepherd

The Self, and Other Stories

2023

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Chapter 2: Expertise S. 17-32

„… meandering that hap-pens as my writing-self settles to a rhythm and a story. The subject of this story is …” „… mistake: there is a difference, it turns out, between intellectualizing through writing of a vulnerable …” „… leaves me. I have always thought myself free in my writing; I delight in language, in playing with how …”

Chapter 1: Exegesis S. 1-16

„… would be here, in this office, this morning, distracted by the dull hum of the fan, writing.There is a …” „… part of me that is always writing. I’m not sure I even know who I am when I’m not writing. Whether I …” „… , writing completes me. This understanding pulls me out of bed at 3:00 a.m. to the blue light of my laptop …”

Chapter 5: Experience S. 69-88

„… 69Even as I’m walking, I’m writing; I’m working with words as the tides wash and whisper around me …” „… them into focus; I feel like I am over-writing, always, the space of recollection, recon-structing or …” „… life. And I am Chapter 5ExperienceChapter 570ambivalent, in any case, about writing from experience as …”

Preface

„… , WritingLaura J. Shepherd Ripping, Cutting, Stitching: Feminist Knowledge Destruction and Creation in Global …” „… & LITTLEFIELDLanham • Boulder • New York • LondonThe Self, and Other StoriesBeing, Knowing, Writing …” „… 103About the Author 117ContentsixRelax what you don’t need.I have been putting off writing this …”

Chapter 7: Epilogue S. 103-116

„… encounter my surroundings. Those changes haunt me, and my writing, and each word seems so very small. I feel …” „… the bushfires of the 2019–2020 summer here in Australia, and I stopped writing for a long time. My …” „… was not well, and I was not writing.* * *Once-in-a-century floods follow fire. Then, weeks after we …”

Chapter 3: Encounter S. 33-50

„… and strange yet felt seductive in their scientific status (and their sibilance). Writing this account …” „… disruptive. Even the writing of this account is a form of disruption, but it is a disruption (of scholarly …” „… spend my time writing this account, to invest effort 8 Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, “Feminist Research …”

Chapter 6: Entanglements S. 89-102

„… writing to you as my supervisor to pro-vide a medical certificate to support my leave applications: one …” „… mind I am always here, Entanglements 93writing, as though the hands-arms-shoulders that connect my …” „… entanglement of feeling and knowing, and its expression, in writing.While you and I have lips and voices …”

Chapter 4: Engagement S. 51-68

„… amateurish analytical writing is ephemera. They are not me. I am not them. I am not even close to that world …” „… badge—red, with white writing, I think—and I was pleased with myself for this per-formance of politics. The …” „… commented that I seem to be writing against my own sense of worthlessness, that this is an essay—owing much …”

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Catherine DePino - Excuse Me, Your Participle's Dangling

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Excuse Me, Your Participle's Dangling

2013

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11 Writing Style S. 95-102

„… Chapter ElevenWriting StyleWhat It Is and How to Get ItNow that I’m beginning to understand the …” „… nuts and bolts of grammar,I’d like to learn more about writing style. How can I make my individualstyle …” „… shine through in my writing?You’ll want to make your writing style uniquely your own, and there are afew …”

2 How to Build a Sentence from Start to Finish S. 11-26

„… depends on the point you’re trying to make in your writing.Sometimes a stark, simple sentence drives your …” „… teachers or employers with writing that will makethem beg for more.Possibly the best benefit from knowing …” „… ofclauses and four types of sentences to help you produce your best writing?As a bonus, you’ll also find it …”

12 How to Write Under Pressure Using a Foolproof Plan S. 103-110

„… homework assign-ment, timed essay test, or placement exam.If you’re writing a business report, you can use …” „… understand it, but make sure youremember your secret codes. Make your writing legible enough so that youcan …” „… them. If you writethe main points and read what you’re writing aloud, you’ll recall the materialbetter …”

Preface

„… Excuse Me, Your Participle’s Dangling!How to Use Grammar to Make YourWriting Powers SoarCatherine …” „… 8111 Writing Style: What It Is and How to Get It 9512 How to Write Under Pressure Using a Foolproof …” „… book also offers a simple yet foolproof method of writing underpressure, the key to success in any …”

4 Adjectives and Adverbs S. 31-34

„… words or modifiers, such asadjectives and adverbs. I always thought my writing would look better(more …” „… overused them and said Ineeded to find other ways of making my writing more interesting.Before we discuss …” „… adjectives and adverbs, let’s address your teacher’sconcerns about overusing them in writing. Most writing …”

1 Verbs S. 1-10

„… English in one of twoplaces, a regular class or a remedial writing class sometimes dubbed “Bone-head …” „… writing move. Nouns or subjects may be what your sentences areabout, but verbs give them power and purpose …” „… wouldn’t make sense.Why do grammar gurus say not to use a lot of linking verbs in writing?Whenever you can …”

8 The Rest of the Punctuation Marks S. 59-70

„… writing personality and making it fun to read.Knowing how to punctuate properly will help you whenever you …” „… writing.5960 Chapter 8Example: Today I went to a step-aerobics class for the first time; I’m notsure if …” „… question about italics. I get confused about whether to underlineor to use italics when I’m writing on the …”

9 Agreement Problems S. 71-80

„… and sentence fragments thatcan make my writing look bad?Along with run-on sentences and fragments …” „… singular verbs, especially informal writing. Others believe that if you see two nouns in the sentence …” „… toapply it to writing.If you substitute the plural pronoun they for many, you’ll know that youshould use …”

3 Sentence Fragments and Run-On Sentences S. 27-30

„… master good grammar and writing, you’ll have toswear off sentence fragments and run-on sentences forever …” „… errors like the West Nile Virus.However, sometimes experienced writers use fragments in their writing …” „… run-on sentences? When I’m writ-ing, I sometimes start rambling. I get carried away and don’t knowwhen to …”

Answer Key S. 111-120

„… sen-tence.QUICK QUIZ #5: WRITING DIFFERENT TYPES OF SENTENCESExamples of Different Sentence TypesSimple Sentence …” „… offers six months free and renewal at no cost.3. Learning grammar is as important to good writing as …” „… #16: FINE-TUNING YOUR WRITING STYLE1. jargon: After the doctor said to apply the paddles immediately …”

5 Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers S. 35-42

„… wouldn’t be the best tone to use if you were writing a letter ofcomplaint to “Crabby’s Fish Fry” about the …” „… again recognized the passive voice, which you need touse sparingly in writing.Let’s look at one more …”

10 Words Often Confused S. 81-94

„… grammar, your writing powers willsoar.32. Quiet, quite: Quiet means still or silent, while quite means …” „… not moving. Stationerymeans writing material, mainly paper.Examples:The car remained stationary after …”

About the Author S. 121

„… writing improvement and bully prevention. She also wrote twoupbeat nondenominational prayer books for …”

6 Commas, Part I S. 43-54

„… called paren-thetical expressions. These words tighten up your writing because they helpyou tie ideas …” „… , research papers, and profes-sional reports will mark you as an expert at organizing your writing to makeit …”

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Simone Sauer-Kretschmer, Monika Schmitz-Emans , Linda Simonis - Schrift und Graphisches im Vergleich

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Schrift und Graphisches im Vergleich

2019

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Maria Weilandt „… filling up the emptiness … with writing“ S. 539-553

„… Maria Weilandt„… filling up the emptiness … with writing“Schrift und Schreiben in Craig Thompsons …” „… abmildern und Dreidimensionalität evozieren.„… filling up the emptiness … with writing“542Abbildung 1 …” „… writing“544Entsprechend der Bedeutung, die der Schrift und dem Schreiben in „Habibi“ zukommt, wird auch …”

Hans-Joachim Backe Writing as medium of the Unspeakable S. 485-496

„… Writing as medium of the UnspeakableWritten language as an expression of the ephemeral in literary comics …” „… central aesthetic principle behind the writing of H. P. Lovecraft. In nearly every one of his texts, the …” „… comic books and digital games. While writing (in the materially-semiotic sense of a constellation of …”

Shaun F. D. Hughes Runic Signatures in Old English and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry S. 395-406

„… looking at the symbols that constitute a piece of writing does not “see” them but rather looks through …” „… subsuming the act of seeing into the act of reading. We recognize this only when confronted by a writing …” „… and early modern Iceland had two writing sys-tems available to them. The Roman alphabetical system was …”

Hanna Matthies Widerständige Zeichen in Lutz Seilers »Kruso« und Margaret Atwoods »The Handmaid’s Tale« S. 117-130

„… writing is in any case forbidden“ (Atwood 1986: 49). Diese beiden Zitate zei-gen zum Einstieg, dass Offred …” „… tiny writing, quite fresh it seemed, scratched with a pin or maybe just a fingernail, in the corner …” „… what language it was in. […] Still, it was a message, and it was in writing, forbidden by that very …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 2-8

„… Hans-Joachim Backe Writing as medium of the Unspeakable. Written language as an expression of the ephemeral in …” „… Weilandt„… filling up the emptiness … with writing“. Schrift und Schreiben in Craig Thompsons Habibi …”

Monika Schmitz-Emans, Linda Simonis, Simone Sauer-Kretschmer Einleitung S. 9-16

„… , Fanny/Stroth, Fabian: „Introduction.“ In: dies. (Hg.): Writing Matters: Presenting and Perceiving Monumental …” „… Writing and the Organization of Society. Cambridge: Cam-bridge University Press, 1986Hamburger, Jeffrey …”

Jennifer Clare Schrift als Dokument und Praxis literarischer Zusammenarbeit S. 469-482

„… writing couple should be designates an „author“ and the other not. (Stone/Thompson 2006: 23)Eine …” „… .): Literary Couplings. Writing Couples, Collabora-tors, and the Construction of Authorship. Madison …”

Simone Sauer-Kretschmer Das Diktat der Träume S. 89-98

„… supposition undergirds a number of Nabokov’s fictional writings, including, perhaps not so paradoxically, his …”

Isabelle Stauffer Körperspuren und Ornament S. 497-510

„… „Mehrsinnigkeit des Ornaments“. Damit sind mehrfache, sich ausschließende 8 „I need it in writing, Vicomte“, sagt …”

Stefania Acciaioli William Blakes intertextueller Dialog zwischen Wort und Bild S. 165-182

„… . München: Knaus, 2001.Blake, William: Visions of the Daughters of Albion. In: Ders.: Complete Writings …”

Markus Schleich / Claudia Schmitt „Une lettre est une âme…“ S. 511-524

„… . Diegetic Writing as Athory-bos (Chion 2017: 59ff.) und 10. Excription (ebd.: 190ff.).512Kombination …”

Oliver Völker Zerstreuung – Verflechtung S. 365-378

„… : Selected Writings and Interviews. Uni-versity of California Press, 1995.Schmitz-Emans, Monika: „Schrift als …”

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Tobi Jacobi, Ann Folwell Stanford - Women, Writing, and Prison

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Women, Writing, and Prison

2014

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Section I Writing and Reclaiming Self S. 21-92

„… , when I read what I have written, I understand more of who I am. It’s writing to stand strong so that I …” „… became the safest place to pen the events that overwhelmed me, and so writing began to be my own Heaven …” „… . My writing then began even more to reflect the life I lived—out of control and almost non-existent. I …”

Appendix: Resources for Facilitating Prison Writing Workshops S. 259-264

„… AppendixResources for Facilitating Prison Writing Workshops259Many writing opportunities for …” „… years of training writing workshop facilitators and teaching inside.Establishing Your Role as Writing …” „… . Establishing a writing rela-tionship and a subsequent community of writers is a rich opportunity for …”

Section II Bridging Communities: Writing Programs and Social Practice S. 93-172

„… SECTION IIBridging Communities: Writing Programs and Social PracticeGood Intentions AsideThe Ethics …” „… of Reciprocity in a University-Jail Women’s Writing Workshop Collaboration Sadie Reynolds995Why …” „… she would see it. Writing became my secret. My voice. My ventilation system. A cry on the wishful wind …”

Section III Writing, Resistance, and the Material Realities of U.S. Prisons and Jails S. 173-238

„… in one’s own voice”1The Power of Women’s Prison WritingJudith Scheffler16175Hidden for centuries in a …” „… old, writing by women prisoners currently commands interest. Some of this interest arises from its …” „… , critically engaged writing. Readers approaching women’s prison writing from any of these perspec-tives may …”

Introduction: Not Much Silence Here S. 1-18

„… Introduction: Not Much Silence HereAnn Folwell Stanford1Writing is a matter of survival: if I …” „… my writing: to prevent the erosion of time, so that memories will not be blown by the wind. I write …” „… of women writing.1 For some, writing is the solitary, passion-driven activity of a mind hungry to …”

Selected Bibliography S. 265-274

„… beginning was the word: Teaching pre-college English at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Writing on the …” „… learning/acquisition borderland. Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service Learning 6 no. 1 …” „… . Creative writing in the culture of the American prison. Salamagundi 162–163: 160–81.Cowser, Robert. 2003 …”

Preface

„… ADVANCE PRAISE FOR WOMEN, WRITING, AND PRISON: ACTIVISTS, SCHOLARS, AND WRITERS SPEAK OUT“This …” „… writings undermine the very foundation of our nightmarish and shameful prison system. Like crews boring a …” „… , and academics, this in-novative anthology reminds us why writing matters.” —Patrick W. Berry, Syracuse …”

Afterword: Speaking Out for Social Justice S. 241-252

„… writing programs across the world reside along many points on that road of personal and public freedom …” „… challenge and trauma of daily living. Sometimes writing becomes that haven, both painful and fulfilling.242 …” „… A F T E R W O R DHistorically, there is a strong tradition of writing and language activism within …”

About the Authors S. 253-258

„… practicing the craft of writing, reading The New Yorker and playing the dulcimer. Her work includes the plays …” „… of Prison Writing—A PEN Ameri-can Center Prize Anthology. Her published works include The Woman and …” „… the Myth: Margaret Fuller’s Life and Writings (rev. ed., 1994), Reinventing the Americas: Comparative …”

Index S. 275-280

„… , 163–164; risks/dangers, 158, 162; zines, 99, 151, 242. See also Theatre-writing, Prison genresBaca, Jimmy …” „… , 182–183Boudin, Kathy, 178, 183–185. See also Political crimescelebrity: endorsement of writing, 180; led …” „… , 110, 145, 149, 154, 191, 214; dialogue, 126, 129, 132, 145, 189; funding, 76, 98; writing as a …”

Where We Are From S. 19-20

„… Where We Are FromSpeakOut! Women’s Writing Group (Fall 2011)19I am from a pack of strong women a …”

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