Product Description: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donald M. Murray's lively and inspiring approach to writing and revision does not condescend but invites you into the writer's studio. The ANNIVERSARY EDITION includes a new foreword by Brock Dethier, Writing Program Director at Utah State University and former University of New Hampshire colleague of the late Donald Murray...read more

Product Description: WRITE TO LEARN establishes a framework for students to create original and compelling writing. Donald Murray, with his famous clear and succinct writing style, moves the beginning student writer from an initial idea all the way to a final draft...read more

Product Description: A landmark text on the teaching of writing, Donald M. Murray's A WRITER TEACHES WRITING has had a profound influence on composition theory and practice.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of My Twice-Lived Life offers a candid, poignant account of the death of his second daughter at the age of twenty from Reye's Syndrome, reexamining the grief and anguish of her death, its long-term impact, and its struggle to find acceptance and peace in his own life. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In an extraordinary memoir that skillfully negotiates between the fierce candor of a war veteran and the quiet sensibility of an artist, Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe columnist Donald Murray dives head first into aging, a subject that is often only whispered about, stereotyped or, even worse, ignored...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Written by one of the pioneers of the process-writing approach, the seventh edition of Donald Murrays brief rhetoric continues to help students find their own style of writing. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Writing to Deadline takes the reader into the mind of the nonfiction writer, demystifying the process by which journalists clarify confusion and present significant information under demanding restrictions of time and space. This is an essential book for working journalists, professors and students of journalism, directors of newspaper inservice writing programs, and anyone who wants to learn more about: the news-writing process reporting and writing for surprise focusing your story draft writing editing and fine-tuning case studies of real journalists at work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Crafting a Life in Essay, Story, Poem, Donald Murray demonstrates the craft that has been his discipline and joy for more than half a century. He describes how the writing act has allowed him to live his life twice--once in experience and once again as the evolving draft illuminates the texture and meaning of that experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The work of Donald Graves, Lucy Calkins, Donald Murray, Nancie Atwell, and others has led to a whole generation of writing process workshops where children write, share, revise, and publish their work with confidence. But such progress raises problems, and teachers today have a number of new concerns, mainly: Now that my students are writing, how do I help them improve? What a Writer Needs answers these concerns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Designed primarily for students in composition courses, Read to Write explains and demonstrates how writers read both their own works in progress and the published works of other writers in order to learn how to write more effectively.

Tells how to develop new ideas, organize complicated materials, avoid cliches, improve one's writing style, and handle writer's block, and includes interviews with reporters and editors

Product Description: Both practicing and would-be writers are endlessly fascinated by what other writers have to say about the demands of their craft and their own methods of writing. In Shoptalk, Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Murray has collected quotations from over 450 classic and contemporary writers that reveal the myriad stages writers pass through to completion of a work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of academic articles shows the range of Murray's interests and concerns as he looks at writing from the writer's as well as the teacher's perspective.