Professor Scott Hopkins,
PhD. ENC1101
18 January 2017
Summary and Analysis
Elbow, Peter. "10. The Need for Care: Easy Speaking onto the Page Is Never Enough."University of Massachusetts - Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. N.p., June 2010. Web. . This chapter emphasis the importance in including careless speaking and careful mental writing to form a good piece of literature. Elbow claims that carless speaking has a lot of positive qualities. It allows you to speak or write effortlessly, and make the writers work look spontaneous without making careful decisions. When making careful conclusions, you start to build thoughts or anxiety and focus more on fixing spelling mistakes or correcting grammar instead of on the main focus …show more content…
This helps the writer focus more on figuring out the main point, the best logical order, and the unnecessary passages that can be removed. The author explains that collage is a helpful method because it can either help someone create or revise a coherent, as long as they can find the correct format the fits them. The skeleton process for building a coherent is described as looking for abandoned bones of the ground and reconstructing them back into a living skeleton. There are 3 steps to this development, first is to “Create bones”. (Elbow, Peter pg,5) By doing this you are looking for the most important segments, the ones that contains thought or ideas and that feel significant for the main idea. Which leads you into the second step,” Figure out a main idea” (Elbow, Peter pg,6) In this step you are to scan thorough all of your bones or pieces from step one, to find the central idea of your piece. Next you need to build your story outline “Build the Skeleton”. (Elbow, Peter pg,6) by connecting your kernel sentences and your central idea. Finally, in the last step you “Create your coherent draft”. (Elbow, Peter