Working at Writing

Authors

James M. Jasper Independent Researcher https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6924-2097

James M. Jasper has written about culture and politics for almost forty years. His main topic has been social movements, and especially their emotional dynamics, in books such as The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements (Chicago University Press, 1997) and The Emotions of Protest (Chicago University Press, 2018). His most recent book is the coauthored Gains and Losses: How Protestors Win and Lose (Oxford University Press, 2022), about the complicated packages of impacts that movements can have. He recently retired from the CUNY Graduate Center.

writing, editing, learning

Anyone can learn to write well. This article contains some suggestions for writing gracefully, but also for learning to write gracefully.

Marías, J. (2007). A Man of Feeling (M.J. Costa, Trans.). New York, NY: New Directions. (Original work published 1986)

Ross-Larson, B. (1999). Stunning Sentences (The Effective Writing Series). New York, NY: W.W. Norton.