The Craft of RevisionPulitzer prize-winning author Donald M. Murray takes a lively and inspirig approach to the process of revision. |
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... poem , half - prose chunk in daybook . • Work as a poem in daybook - one to three ( four ? five ? ) times . • When it looks like a poem , I type it into the computer , revis- ing as I go . I usually paste these drafts in my daybook and ...
... poem , half - prose chunk in daybook . • Work as a poem in daybook - one to three ( four ? five ? ) times . • When it looks like a poem , I type it into the computer , revis- ing as I go . I usually paste these drafts in my daybook and ...
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... poem . I started my writing this morning by rereading a draft of a poem , seeing imaginary heads and realized it needed to be broken into four stanzas . I went back to the poem and put the heads in . I was interested in the way it ...
... poem . I started my writing this morning by rereading a draft of a poem , seeing imaginary heads and realized it needed to be broken into four stanzas . I went back to the poem and put the heads in . I was interested in the way it ...
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Donald Morison Murray. I think made the poem better . This is the kind of play in the search for meaning that writers engage in ... poem and clarify my meaning . Death's Innocence It is Lee , trying not to wake Discovering Your Structure 107.
Donald Morison Murray. I think made the poem better . This is the kind of play in the search for meaning that writers engage in ... poem and clarify my meaning . Death's Innocence It is Lee , trying not to wake Discovering Your Structure 107.
Contents
The Craft of Revision | 10 |
Demonstrating the Writing Process | 17 |
Draft to Explore | 23 |
Copyright | |
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