Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing
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I don't know anyone who conveys more essential insights more clearly and briefly. I can't think of a better book to recommend to people who want to make a difference. --Peter Elbow, Author, Writing With Power, Writing Without Teachers; Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst A valuable, beautifully written resource, this book will certainly inspire and unleash critical thinking and writing for social change--both for activists who never imagined they could be writers and for seasoned writers in need of renewal. --Shamin Meer, Activist Writer and Researcher, South Africa Louise...
I don't know anyone who conveys more essential insights more clearly and briefly. I can't think of a better book to recommend to people who want to make a difference. --Peter Elbow, Author, Writing With Power, Writing Without Teachers; Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst A valuable, beautifully written resource, this book will certainly inspire and unleash critical thinking and writing for social change--both for activists who never imagined they could be writers and for seasoned writers in need of renewal. --Shamin Meer, Activist Writer and Researcher, South Africa Louise Dunlap brings us this elegant and moving book on how to find your powerful voice and understand your audience. Every professional grad school should require this book. --Ann Markusen, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota With these tools, my ordinary words become a vehicle for change. --Mary Leno, Eviction Free Zone, Cambridge Women's Commission ...having worked in medical and federal government jobs that required writing in a passive voice. I took Louise's writing course and realized that not only was I writing passively, I was thinking passively! --Emma Featherman-Sam, Transit Coordinator, Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Transportation If fish had hands, Louise Dunlap could teach them to write! After attending her workshops and classes, hundreds of labor and community activists have used Dunlap's tested techniques to write clearly and passionately for social and economic justice. --Susan Moir, Director, Labor Resource Center, University of Massachusetts Boston The techniques in Undoing the Silence value the knowledge ad experience of emerging writers. The power of this work is "The Lifting of Every Voice..". the basis of building a real democracy in this country. --Mel King, Community leader and former Massachusetts State Representative; Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Louise Dunlap began her career as an activist writing instructor during the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s. She learned that listening and gaining a feel for audience are as important to social transformation as the outspoken words of student leaders atop police cars. "Free speech is a first step, but real communication matches speech with listening and understanding. That is when thinking shifts and change happens."
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