An Interview with Peter Elbow

Kelly Peinado

doi:10.58680/tetyc19973823

ISSN: 0098-6291
E-ISSN: 1943-2356

An Interview with Peter Elbow
Author(s): Kelly Peinado
Source: Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Volume 24, Issue 3, Oct 1997, p. 199 - 204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58680/tetyc19973823
- Published online: 01 Oct 1997

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Peter Elbow reiterates his philosophy of teaching writing, including to start with personal and experiential writing, to look more at how the writing does and doesnâ€™t work rather than the "quality" of the writing, to use lots of freewriting.

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