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Musical artist

Peter James Turner (born 28 August ) is a British musician and songwriter who has been the bassist for the rock band Elbow since the group's formation.

Biography

Turner grew up in Bury, Manchester as an adopted child of white British parents. He has cited Adam and the Ants as the first band which he "really loved," and also cited Duran Duran and Public Enemy as early favourites. Turner has credited Duran Duran's John Taylor as being his initial inspiration in becoming a bassist. He has also said that Public Enemy's record Fear of a Black Planet is his favourite album.

Turner was one of the three embryonic founders of what would later become Elbow, as he had formed a band named RPM with future Elbow members Richard Jupp and Mark Potter. Turner befriended future Elbow frontman Guy Garvey at Bury College and the latter later joined RPM in , triggering a band name change to Mr. Soft, and eventually later on first to just Soft and finally to Elbow in

Sometime in the s, Turner relocated from Bury to Manchester's city centre, and then moved again to the suburban area of Chorlton in Manchester's southern half in

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American academic

Peter Elbow (April 14, –February 6, ) was a professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he also directed the Writing Program from until

As a scholar whose published work raised both academic and popular awareness of scholarship within the field of Rhetoric and Composition, Elbow’s research includes theory, practice, and pedagogy. He is one of the pioneers of freewriting.

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 to While at Exeter College, Oxford University, on scholarship from Williams, he found himself 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 to , and then as one of five founding members of Franconia College from to It was at Franconia where Elbow discovered he could write more easily when writing for colleagues or students rather than as an assigned piece.

In he returned to graduate school, this time at Brandeis University. He had to get over beginning by trying to write "well"—that is to write good sentences and work from an outline. He had to learn to write what he liked to call "garbage." He came to accept that he simply couldn't write right; he could only write wrong; and then try by revising to make it right. 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 write his graduate papers. When it came time to write a dissertation, he spent a year trying to write about metaphor—not metap

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My love affair with Dr. Peter Elbow started in the mid s. My mother, a professional author, handed me his book Writing with Power as one of her chief sources of writing inspiration.

I got midway through the first chapter and my margin notes said things like, &#;Wait, that&#;s what I do!&#; and &#;I never realized other people wrote this way, too!&#;

Writing with Power put my writing life into words and identified the processes that came naturally to me. Even more, Peter Elbow gave me new ideas to test and new methods to aid me in expanding and exploring my mind life in writing. Writing with Power popularized the term &#;freewriting&#; and Peter&#;s work cascaded into a revolution of writing practices at all levels of the school system in the ss.

Over the ensuing decades, I&#;ve studied his writings eagerly adding to my &#;Elbow book shelf.&#; In , after I published The Writer&#;s Jungle, I packed up the three ring binder and shipped it to Peter without pausing to consider the audacity of that move. Peter served as the head of the writing department as a professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I told him how his work had inspired me and shaped what I teach in Brave Writer. I thanked him for his ground-breaking ideas and the influence they had on me.

I never expected to hear back.

A month later, an email arrived from Peter! Imagine my shock (and anxiety). What if he thought I was a hack? Instead, the warm voice I had come to know in his books greeted me immediately. Peter thanked me for the manual and told me he was glad I was taking his ideas to the homeschooling market since he had no access to home educators. He liked what I had written. Satisfaction and a big confidence boost came along for the ride.

A few years later, Peter&#;s secretary contacted me and invited me to hear Peter speak at Miami of Ohio University. I co