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Tables of Contents for Acts of Revision
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
Wendy Bishop
v
Acknowledgments
xi
1 Revising Attitudes
Brock Dethier
1
12
2 Revising Out and Revising In
Wendy Bishop
13
15
3 The Masks of Revision
Hans Ostrom
28
10
4 Revising Research Writing: A Theory and Some Exercises
Alice S. Horning
38
13
5 From Correct to Effect: Revising and Alternate Styles
Melissa A. Goldthwaite
51
10
6 Subterranean Rulesick Blues
Maggie Gerrity
61
9
7 A Study in Sentence Style
Wendy Bishop
70
21
8 Punctuation As Editing
Devan Cook
91
17
9 The Case of Creative Nonfiction: Retouching Life
Wendy Bishop
108
17
10 If the Poet Wants to Be a Poet
Laura Newton
125
9
11 The Making of a Poem, Live and Uncensored
Dana Kantrowitz
134
10
12 Why Not Hypertext? Converting the 01d, Interpreting the New, Revising the Rest
Jay Szczepanski
144
11
After Words
Thank You, Thank You Very Much: Coauthors On Collaborative Revision
Hans Ostrom and Wendy Bishop Wendy Bishop and Hans Ostrom
155
6
About the Authors
161
2
Further Reading
163