1st Edition

Writing and Personality Finding Your Voice, Your Style, Your Way

By John K. DiTiberio, George H. Jensen Copyright 2007
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

'We cannot separate the writer from the writing. Nor should we try. Both our writing process and our writing products need to carry our unique signature, a bit of our personality.' - From Writing and Personality How you write - what works for you and what makes sense to you - depends on who you are, your personality, your preferences, your style of thinking and feeling. If you're extraverted... Read more
Prologue -- How Writing Works For You -- Your Beginnings as a Writer -- Your Present as a Writer -- Writing Through Personality -- Your Preferred Way of Writing -- Getting Started: Extraversion and Introversion -- Knowing What to Say: Sensing and Intuition -- Deciding How to Say It: Thinking and Feeling -- Getting It Done: Judging and Perceiving -- Sixteen Approaches to Writing -- Four Sensing Thinking Approaches to Writing -- Four Sensing Feeling Approaches to Writing -- Four Intuitive Feeling Approaches to Writing -- Four Intuitive Thinking Approaches to Writing -- Practical Applications -- Your Natural Style and Its Consequences -- Drafting and Revising -- Growing as a Writer -- Getting Past Anxiety and Writer’s Blocks -- Writing for Different Audiences -- Collaboration: Writing With Friends and Enemies -- Epilogue: Types, Stereotypes, and Book Reports -- Appendix -- Credits

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K. DiTiberio, John | H. Jensen, George