"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.
An editor-at-large at Mc Sweeney\'s, he has worked with writers who have gon.
He is the author of five books.
A contributing writer at Inside Higher Ed, he has become a national voice on Writing pedagogy and writes a weekly column on books and reading for the Chicago Tribune.
He has taught many different types of writing, from composition, fiction, and narrative Nonfiction to technical and humor writing.
About the Author: John Warner has more than twenty years\' experience teaching college-level writing, working with a range of students on developmental Writing through graduate-level studies.
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.
While this is a valuable element of a Writing education, there is room for something that speaks more broadly.
The most popular books on composition take a formalistic view, utilizing "templates" in order to mimic the sorts of rhetorical moves academics make.
The time is right for this new and groundbreaking approach.
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. "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
