Question

Peter Elbow on Writing After watching the video, you should be able to answer the following questions 1. Why did Peter Elbow flunk out of graduate school? 2. What two-step process did Elbow discover that helped him learn to write? 3. What idea did Elbow have to abandon before he learned how to write? 4. What does Elbow mean when he says a writer should begin by making a mess? 5. What, according to Elbow, are two processes involved in writing? 6. What is the one rule of free writing? 7. What benefit of freewriting does Elbow mention? 8. What is the role of the audience in helping a writer improve his/her writing skills? 9. What are three kinds of readers of student writing? What is the function of each? с л м а

Answer 1

1. Peter elbow flunk out of the graduate school because he found it difficult to find words , control them and organize them so he dropped out of school .

2. Two step process found by him to learn how to write :-

- first found out the faults in the writing and like it

- first you like the writing and then do the improvements

4. We should begin by making mess ,by this Peter wants to say that at the initial stages when we make mistakes in any learning is an essential part because then only we can learn perfectly from our experiences and mistakes .