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Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow is a Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he also directed the Writing Program from 1996 until 2000. He writes about theory, practice, and pedagogy, and has authored several books and a number of papers. His practices in regard to editing and revising are now widely accepted and taught as the writing process. The invention technique freewriting is dubbed as a "student-centered movement".
==Biography==
In the introduction to the second edition of ''Writing Without Teachers'', Elbow says that his interest in writing practices came from his own difficulty with writing. He attended Proctor Academy and Williams College from 1953 to 1957. While at the University of Oxford on scholarship from Williams, he was unable to write the assigned essays. When he began his PhD in English at Harvard University, his writing difficulties persisted, causing him to leave in the first year of his studies. Elbow began teaching, first as an instructor at MIT from 1960–1963, and then as one of nine founding members of Franconia College from 1963-1965. It was at Franconia where Elbow discovered he could write more easily when writing for colleagues or students rather than as an assigned piece.〔Elbow ''Writing Without Teachers'' xiv〕〔Elbow ''Selected''〕
In 1965 he returned to graduate school, this time at Brandeis University. He developed a self-analytical process of writing, mostly out of fear that he would not be able to write for teachers again. Elbow has said that the process of freewriting really came about during this time in his life. He would sit down with his typewriter and type out all his thoughts, making writing a sort of therapy. This helped him to get through the graduate-level writing, and when it came time for him to write his dissertation, he had many ideas, but ultimately settled on Chaucer. He would eventually make his dissertation book-length and publish it in 1975 under the title ''Oppositions in Chaucer''.〔〔Elbow ''Writing Without Teachers'' xv-xvi〕
After receiving his PhD, Elbow accepted a position at MIT in 1968, turning down an offer from Berkeley to remain in the Boston area for personal reasons. While sitting in his office one day in 1970, a representative from Oxford University Press came to show him some books that he might like to use in his classes. When the representative asked Elbow if he was writing anything, Elbow replied that he had thought about trying to write something to do with teacher-less writing groups, a concept he had become interested in. Soon after, he had an advance to begin a book called ''Writing Without Tears'', which would later become ''Writing Without Teachers''.〔〔Elbow ''Writing Without Teachers'' xvi-xvii〕 In the nearly 40 years since then, Elbow has penned more than 10 books, as well as numerous articles regarding writing technique and theory.
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