Prolific Moment

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Alexandria Peary coordinates the first-year writing program and is a professor in the English department at Salem State University where she teaches courses in creative writing and composition. Peary s blog Your Ability to Write is Always Present (alexandriapeary.blogspot.com) focuses on mindful writing and has an international following. She has given talks on mindful writing at institutions around the United States and in the U.K.

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Prolific Moment: Theory and Practice of Mindfulness for Writing foregrounds the present in all activities of composing, offering a new perspective on the rhetorical situation and the writing process. A focus on the present casts light on standard writing components audience, invention, and revision while bringing forth often overlooked nuances of the writing experience intrapersonal rhetoric, the preverbal, and preconception.

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Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Hymn of Binaries, Mantra for Equanimity: Wooden Sculpture [Preface]

Introduction

Chapter One: Present Moment, Writing Moment

Interchapter

Chapter Two: The Monkey Mind of Intrapersonal Rhetoric

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Chapter Three: The Verbal Emptiness of Mindful Invention

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Chapter Four: Mind Waves, Mind Weeds, Preconceptions

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Chapter Five: Their Ability To Write Is Always Present: A Disciplinary Context for Mindfulness

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Works Cited