"Unique and thorough, Warner's handbook could turn any determined
reader into a regular Malcolm Gladwell." --Booklist
For anyone aiming to improve their skill as a writer, a revolutionary
new approach to establishing robust writing practices inside and outside
the classroom, from the author of Why They Can't Write
After a decade of teaching writing using the same methods he'd
experienced as a student many years before, writer, editor, and educator
John Warner realized he could do better. Drawing on his classroom
experience and the most persuasive research in contemporary composition
studies, he devised an innovative new framework: a step-by-step method
that moves the student through a series of writing problems, an organic,
bottom-up writing process that exposes and acculturates them to the ways
writers work in the world.
The time is right for this new and groundbreaking approach. The most
popular books on composition take a formalistic view, utilizing
"templates" in order to mimic the sorts of rhetorical moves academics
make. While this is a valuable element of a writing education, there is
room for something that speaks more broadly. The Writer's Practice
invites students and novice writers into an intellectually engaging,
active learning process that prepares them for a wider range of academic
and real-world writing and allows them to become invested and engaged in
their own work.
