Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow is currently a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He’s published many books including: Landmark Essays on Voice and Writing (Hermagoras Press, 1995), Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process (Oxford UP,1998), and Everyone Can Write: Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing (Oxford UP,2000).

A pedagogical philosophy based on Elbow’s theories would be student-centered and include activities such as freewriting, keeping journals, and ignoring audience. The teacher will focus on a students’ creative efforts and finding their unique voice. Two excellent texts that highlight Elbow’s theories are A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers 4^th ed. by Erika Lindemann and Teaching Composition 2^nd ed. by T. R. Johnson.

Sources:
http://works.bepress.com/peter_elbow/
http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/Bibs/Elbow.htm
http://www.iupui.edu/~sharrin/5365/huang.htm