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Being A Writer: A Community of Writers Revisited
Peter Elbow, University of Massachusetts--Amherst
Patricia Belanoff, State University of New York--Stony Brook


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Being A Writer is a brief guide to writing 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.