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001			ocn983796814
003			OCoLC
005			20180722225314.0
008			170420t20172017nyuab 000 0 eng
010			_a 2016059416
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020			_a9780374142742 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0374142742 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)983796814 _z(OCoLC)968552086 _z(OCoLC)1001343119
042			_apcc
092			_a808.02 _bM172
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aMcPhee, John, _d1931- _eauthor. _9343569
245	1	0	_aDraft no. 4 : _bon the writing process / _cJohn McPhee.
246	3		_aDraft number 4
246	3		_aDraft number four
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2017.
264		4	_c©2017
300			_a192 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work, subjecting them to wry scrutiny. In one essay, he considers the delicate art of getting sources to tell you what they might not otherwise reveal. In another, he discusses how to use flashback to place a bear encounter in a travel narrative, while observing that "readers are not supposed to notice the structure. It is meant to be about as visible as someone's bones." The result is a vivid depiction of the writing process, from reporting to drafting to revising--and revising, and revising. Draft No. 4 is enriched by multiple diagrams and by personal anecdotes and charming reflections on the life of a writer. McPhee describes his enduring relationships with The New Yorker and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and recalls his early years at Time magazine. Throughout, Draft No. 4 is enlivened by his keen sense of writing as a way of being in the world."--Jacket.
505	0		_aProgression -- Structure -- Editors & publisher -- Elicitation -- Frame of reference -- Checkpoints -- Draft no. 4 -- Omission.
650		0	_aAuthorship. _928502
650		0	_aCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.) _940137
650		0	_aEnglish language _xRhetoric. _928285
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