WM Elbow

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DaniellaChoynowski/2008/02/revisiting_hamlet.html

“We learn speech as infants - from parents who love us and naturally reward us for speaking at all.”

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaSawyer/2008/02/elbow.html

"...we cannot usually produce a carefully-pondered and well ordered piece of writing by talking onto paper. In any piece of writing that has been a struggle to produce, there is often a certain smell of stale sweat. Freewriting or spontaneous speech may be careless or shallow (the meaning is in the words but the amount of meaning is very small). If we learn to talk onto paper and exploit the speech-like quality possible in writing, we can have the experience of writing words with presence, and thereby learn what such writing feels like-in the fingers, in the mouth, and in the ear. This experience increases our chances of getting desirable speech qualities into the writing we revise and think through more carefully." (Elbow p.150)
The link to my blog:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2008/02/el336_wm_elbow_writing_made_ea.html

"...that the fucntion of writing is to record what we have already decided-not to figure out whether we believe it." (WM: Elbow pg. 139)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DavidCristello/2008/02/wm_elbow.html

"Speech is inherently more indelible than writing also because it is a more vivid medium. When we speak, listeners don't just see our words, they see us--how we hold and move ourselves. Even if we only hear someone over the phone or on the radio ... still we experience the texture of her talk; the rhythms, emphases, hesitations, and other tonalities of speech which give us a dramatized sense of her character or personality. (Elbow, "The Shifting Relationships between Speech and Writing, Writing Material 139)"

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