by Jay Woodruff
University of Iowa Press, 1993
Paper: 978-0-87745-409-0
Library of Congress Classification PS225.P54 1993
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.90054

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Books on writing generally offer prescriptions and proscriptions about this "craft so hard to learn" instead of evidence. But in A Piece of Work Woodruff's incisive questions guide five writers—Tobias Wolff, Tess Gallagher, Robert Coles, Joyce Carol Oates, and Donald Hall—through specific examples that enable the reader to see how good writing becomes better. From the first draft through various revisions and finally to the printed version of a single piece of each author's work, Woodruff traces the full course of the revision process.



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