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About this Book
Lifewriting is people-centered nonfiction writing. Not just
autobiographical or biographical, lifewriting
encompasses a broad range of personal-experience narratives. Lifewriting can be serious or humorous or both. It can
include any kind of subject matter because people are always at the heart
of any endeavor. Fred D. White Ph.D., author of four textbooks on writing,
walks the reader through the process from research to composition to
revision to marketing.
Table
of Contents
Part One: Building the Foundation
Chapter 1: Getting Started on Your Lifewriting
Adventure
Chapter 2: Using a Daybook to Hoard Your Treasure Trove of Memories and
Reflections
Chapter 3: Digging for Information
Chapter 4: Transforming Experiences into Lifewriting:
Key Techniques To Master
Chapter 5: Organizing Techniques I: Working Up an Outline
Chapter 6: Organizing Techniques II: Writing a Treatment
Part Two: Ready, Get Set, Start Drafting!
Chapter 7: Drafting I: Writing Effective Openings
Chapter 9: Drafting III: Calling it a Wrap: Writing Effective Conclusions
Chapter 10: Revision: The Fine Art of Re-Seeing Your First Draft
Part Three: Lifewriting Projects
Chapter 11: The Personal Experience Narrative
Chapter 12: Writing Portraits and Self-Portraits
Part Four: Sounding Like Yourself: Developing Your Style
Chapter 13: Copy-Editing for Style I: Strengthening Your Sentences
Part Five: Shepherding Your Essays into Print or Cyberspace
Chapter 15: The Newspaper Market: A Good Place to Start
Chapter 16: Breaking Into the Literary Journal Market
Chapter 17: Competing in the Commercial Magazine and E-Zine
Marketplace
Chapter 18: “I Could Write a Book”: Here’s How
About the Author
Fred D. White received
his Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. Since 1980 has been teaching writing at Santa Clara University, where he is currently Director of the Core
Composition Program. In 1997 he received the Louis and Dorina
Brutocao Award for Teaching Excellence. In
addition to having published numerous essays, scholarly articles, and book
reviews, he is the author of four textbooks on writing, most recently The
Well-Crafted Argument (Houghton Mifflin Co.), co-authored with Simone
Billings, and soon to appear in a second edition.
Reviews
"A writer’s guide with a personal touch, Fred White’s LifeWriting combines practical advice, insights
from other writers, and easy-to-follow strategies that get results. Like a
personal writingcoach, the book will help you
discover new possibilities and write with greater joy and power."
—Diane Dreher, author of
The Tao of Inner Peace and Inner Gardening.
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