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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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