Overview
This best-selling reader features chapters with unique themes (such as dreams, myths, the reasoning mind) and instruction in a range of rhetorical strategies. Supporting a creative approach to the teaching of writing, Dreams and Inward Journeys presents a rich mixture of personal and academic essays, stories, and poems. The readings touch on such topics as memory, myths and fairy tales, obsessions, sexuality, gender roles, technology, popular culture, nature, and spirituality. Readings encourage students to investigate new ways of seeing and understanding themselves and their relationship to important social issues and universal human concerns. Each chapter also provides practical writing advice on a specific rhetorical strategy (from narration to comparison to argument and research), a range of writing assignments, and sample student papers.
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Author: Marjorie Ford , Jon Ford
Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
Imprint: Pearson
Edition: 8th edition
Dimensions:
Width: 10.00cm
, Height: 10.00cm
, Length: 10.00cm
Weight: 0.100kg
ISBN: 9780205211302
ISBN 10: 0205211305
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 10 November 2011
Audience:
Adult education
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
"Chapter 1: Writing and Reading A Process View of Writing and Reading The Reading Process Stephen King, “The Symbolic Language of Dreams” Prereading/Early Reading Personal and Interpretive Response Example of student response to King Critical and Evaluative Response Example of Student response to King The Writing Process and Self-Discovery Stages of the Writing Process Strategies for Prewriting Drafting Student essay: Leigh Haldeman, “Response to Mary Pipher’s ‘Saplings in the Storm’” Revising, and Final Draft Partnership/ Peer Sharing Chapter 2: Journeys and Reflections (Description and Reflection) Thematic Introduction Writing Descriptions Observing Words and Images Revising Initial Descriptions Establishing Vantage Point and Tone Thinking About Your Purpose and Audience Walt Whitman, From “Song of the Open Road” (poem) Donovan Webster, “Inside the Volcano” Andrew Pham, “Viet-Kieu” Kavita Sreedhar, “Travelling Home” (student essay) Francine Prose, “Confessions of a Ritual Tourist” Jane Goodall, “In the Forests of Gombe” Nadiv Rahman, “On the Bridge” (student essay) Topics for Research and Writing Chapter 3: Journeys in Memory (Narrative) Thematic Introduction Narration, Memory, and Self-Awareness Making Associations Focusing and Concentration: The Inner Screen Dialogue and Characters Main Idea or Dominant Impression Drafting and Shaping the Narrative Revising the Narrative: Point of View, Transition, and Style Patricia Hampl, “Memory and Imagination” bell hooks, “Writing Autobiography” Sandra Cisneros, “Monkey Garden” Saira Shah, “The Storyteller’s Daughter” Melissa Burns, “The Best Seat in the House” (student essay) Michael Ventura, “The Peril of Memory” Rachel Naomi Remen, “Remembering” Topics for Research and Writing Chapter 4: Dreams, Myths, and Fairy Tales (Comparison) Thematic Introduction Comparing and Contrasting: Strategies for Thinking and Writing Prewriting for Comparison Outlining and Transition, Evaluation Jorge Luis Borges, “The Circular Ruins” Joseph Campbell, “The Four Functions of Mythology” Marcelo Gleiser, “The Myths of Science—Creation” Portfolio of Creation Myths: From the Rig Veda “Genesis 1 and 2” “The Chameleon Finds” (Yao-Bantu, African) ""The Making of the World"" (Huron) “Spider Woman Creates the Humans” (Hopi, Native American) “The Beginning of the World” (Japanese) Joshua Groban, “Two Myths” (student essay) Lan Samantha Chang, “Water Names"" Four Versions of Cinderella: The Brothers Grimm, “Aschenputtel” (German) “The Twelve Months” (Slavic) “The Algonquin Cinderella” (Native American) “Tam and Cam” (Vietnamese) Topics for Research and Writing Chapter 5: Obsessions and Transformation (Definition) Thematic Introduction Definition: Word Boundaries of the Self Public Meanings and Formal Definition Stipulative and Personal Definitions Contradiction W.S. Merwin, “Fog-Horn” (poem) Andrew Solomon, “Depression” Anne Lamott, “Hunger” Sharon Slayton, “The Good Girl” (student essay) Daniel King, Paul Delfabbro, and Mark Griffiths “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Video Game Players” Mary Sykes Wylie, “Sleepless in America: Making it Through the Night in a Wired World” Marc Ian Barasch, “What Is a Healing Dream?” Topics for Research and Writing Chapter 6: Journeys in Gender and Relationships (Causal Analysis) Thematic Introduction Causality and the Inward Journey Observing and Collecting Information Causal Logical Fallacies Pablo Neruda, “The Dream” (poem) Sigmund Freud, “Erotic Wishes and Dreams” Virginia Woolf, “Professions for Women” Mary Pipher, “Saplings in the Storm” Leigh Haldeman, “A Response to ‘Saplings in the Storm’” Michael Kimmel, “A War Against Boys” David Sedaris, “I Like Guys” Topics for Research and Writing Chapter 7: The Double / The Other (Argument and Dialogue) Thematic Introduction Argument and Dialogue Traditional Argument Dialogic Argument Dialogue and Prewriting Prewriting and the Audience Defining Key Terms Evaluating Facts Feelings in Argument Judith Ortiz Cofer, “The Other” (poem) Connie Zweig and Jeremiah Abrahms, “The Shadow Side of Everyday Life” Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” Sara Colvin, ""Lady Gaga as Monster"" (student essay) Fran Peavey (with Myrna Levy and Charles Varon), “Us and Them” Desmond Mpilo Tutu, “No Future Without Forgiveness” Jessica Rubenstein, “Coed Schools Help Students Excel” (student essay) Topics for Research and Writing Chapter 8: Pop Dreams (Research) Thematic Introduction Research Writing Finding a Topic Timetable and Process Your Voice and the Voices of Your Sources Purpose and Structure Language and Style The Computer as a Research Partner Juliet B. Schor, “Decommercialization of Childhood” Henry Jenkins, “Education, Media, and Violence” Lawrence C. Rubin, “Merchandising Madness Rob Walker, “Click ” Steven Johnson, “How Twitter will Change the World in Which We Live” Jonathan Cusick, “Do Benefit Concerts Affect Political Decisions?” Anne Ritchie, “Creativity, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll” (student essay) Topics for Research and Writing Chapter 9: Voyages in Spirituality (Creativity) Thematic Introduction Creativity, Problem Solving, and Synthesis Habit Versus Risk Reason Versus Intuition Developing Self-Confidence: Learning to Trust Your Own Processes Evaluation and Application Synthesis Donna Lovong, “Are You Joining a Cult?” Norman Yeung Bik Chung, “A Faithful Taoist” (student essay) Chris Gill, James Rotondi, and Jas Obrecht, “Within You, Without You: The Guitarist’s Search for Spiritual Meaning” Jessie van Eerden, “The Soul Has Six Wings” Natalie Goldberg, “On the Shores of Lake Biwa” Noah Levine, “Death Is Not the End My Friend” Martin Luther King, Jr., “A Christmas Sermon on Peace” Topics for Research and Writing "
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