Cover; Title; Copyright; Credits ; Dedication; Contents; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; 1 A Writing Workshop; 2 The Poetry of What We Do and the Playground of Clinical Prose; 3 Narrative Meaning and Technique; 4 Short Stories; 5 The Evocative Mode; 6 The Enactive Mode; 7 Lyric Narratives; 8 The Paradigmatic Mode; 9 Narrative Moves and Interweaves; 10 Voice; 11 Introductions; 12 The Narrative Axis; 13 The Conceptual Axis; 14 Shapes of Arguments; 15 Using Sources; 16 Conclusions; 17 Revising; 18 Confidentiality and Disguise; Afterword; References; Index
Summary
Structure and Spontaneity in Clinical Prose will teach you to read gifted writers for inspiration and practical lessons in the craft of writing; apply the principles and techniques of the paradigmatic, narrative, lyric narrative, evocative, and enactive modes of clinical prose; and put what you learn immediately into practice in eighty-four writing exercises. Each of the five modes uses different means to construct worlds out of language. The paradigmatic abstracts ideas from experience to build concepts and theories. The narrative mode organizes experience through time, creating meaningful rel
