good thinking are based on the doubting game or critical thinking: A process that seeks to use a methodology of skeptical doubting to find flaws in thinking that might look good. Elbow argues that really good thinking also calls on a complementary methodology: conditionally trying to believe all ideas in order to find virtues in thinking that looks wrong. (He is NOT arguing against the doubting game or critical thinking; just asking for an additional methodology.) Elbow has developed the believing game in a series of essays written throughout his career: "Methodological Doubting and Believing: Contraries in Enquiry", in Embracing Contraries, (Oxford University Press, 1986: 253–300); "Bringing the Rhetoric of Assent and The Believing Game Together—and into the Classroom", College English 67.4 (March 2005): 388–99; "The Believing Game and How to Make Conflicting Opinions More Fruitful", in Nurturing the Peacemakers in Our Students: A Guide to Teaching Peace, Empathy, and Understanding. Chris Weber, editor. Heinemann, 2006, 16–25; "The Believing Game or Methodological Believing", Journal for The Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning 14 Winter 2009: 1–11. His essay "The Uses of Binary Thinking" is also crucial in this theoretical work. Writing With Power Writing With Power was published in 1981 during an era where writing teachers were starting to try to get a sense of what it meant to be a writer teaching writing. During this time, current-traditionalism was quite popular in handbooks for writers (Strunk & White's Elements of Style, for example). This method presented writers with a very cut and dried sense of how to write. With the publication of Writing With Power, Peter Elbow broke the current-traditionalist mold. This book proffers various techniques for writers to try, finding one that best suits them. This book takes writers through the whole writing process from generating ideas (where freewriting once more makes an appearance) to revising and editing both alone and with others. Elbow goes on to address issues when writing to different kinds of audiences and also how to seek adequate feedback. It seems to be Elbow's goal to show writers that there is more than just one "correct" way to involve oneself in the writing process. If writers learn to interact with their writing in these ways, they have learned to write with power. The Elbow and Bartholomae debate In the 1990s, Peter Elbow engaged in a public debate with David Bartholomae regarding the role of the