Penulisan Cetusan Fikiran

• Main Author: Horton, Susan R. (Author)
• Other Authors: Amir Hamzah Ismail (Translator), Marison Yusof (Translator), Noor Zaman Mohamad (Translator), Wan Amizah Wan Mahmud (Translator)
• Format: Book
• Language: Malay
• Published: Kuala Lumpur Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka 1993
• Subjects: Creative writing; Authorship; Rhetoric
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 Many writers, even experienced ones, admit that one of the most frightening objects in their world is a blank piece of paper. Susan Horton feels that too many teachers, students, and writers themselves make writing harder than it needs to be. So much emphasis is placed on form and grammar-the "rules of the game," so to speak-that the essence of the writing process, the sheer joy of saying something new, is lost. Thinking Through Writing is, in Horton's words, "a 'Back-to-Basics' book"-but one with a twist. "I'm talking about the real basics," she says. "Not grammar, but basics like what writing is and is for, how you get an idea, and how and why each idea demands its own kind of organization, and how ideas turn into essays, and, even more basic, about how your mind forms ideas in the first place. You can use this book with or without a teacher in front of you. It is put together not to tell you what to do or how to write as much as it is designed to set things up so you can discover for yourself how writing works (yours and everybody else's), and, in the process, how your mind works as well. It's a kind of 'watch yourself think' book. There aren't many answers in it, but there are lots of questions: lots of things to try to explore and discover and play with. Even more than that, this is a book that tries to teach you not just how to answer questions, but how to find questions to ask."