Table of ContentsIntroductions
To the Writing Student
To the Writing Teacher
Each chapter includes 'Connecting to Reading'; 'Connecting to Writing'; and Writing
Projects
Chapter One: Writers and Ways of Writing
Thinking About Definitions of "Writer" and the Processes Writers Choose and Use
Moore, Lorrie: "How to Become a Writer."
Marshal, Paule. "The Poets in the Kitchen."
Wilbur, Richard: "The Writer." (poem)
Yolen, Jane: "[on her writing process]".
Weathers, Winston: "The Winston Weathers Writing Way: A Self-Examination."
Williams, Terry Tempest
Classroom authors:
Debbie Olander: "The Fortunes"
Brian Overcast: "Brambles"
Chapter Two: The Literacy Narrative
Thinking About the Literacy Narrative
Brown, Christy: "The Letter A"
De Chungara, Domitila (with Moema Viezzer): "Let Me Speak!"
Hughes, Langston: "Theme for English B." (poem)
Mellix, Barbara: "From Outside, In."
Rodriguez, Richard: "Going Home Again."
Simpson, Eileen: "Dyslexia"
Wright, Richard: "The Library Card."
Tan, Amy: "Mother Tongue."
Classroom authors:
Armstrong, Stephen B.: "A Trip to the Lake"
Bacque, E. Andree: "Drop Everything and Read"
Olson, Chris: "Learning to Read: For Me It's Been the Struggle of a Lifetime."
Chapter Three: Considering Community and Audience
Thinking About Your Interactions With Other Writers and Readers
Corbett, Edward and Robert Connors: "A Brief Explanation of Classical Rhetoric."
Rose, Mike: "The Discourse of Academics"
Graff, Gerald: "Disliking Books at an Early Age"
Aagard, John: "Listen Mr. Oxford Don."
Dove, Rita: "To Make a Prairie."
Witkin, Stanley L.: "Writing Social Work."
Shen, Fan: "The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition."
Fulwiler, Toby: "The Role of Audiences."
Teaque, Deborah Coxwell: "Making Meaning—Your Own Meaning—When You Read"
Classroom authors:
Lauren, Benjamin: "What Are We Doing with Our Pennies?"
Marcum, Leah V.: "Storm Surge."
Reeves, Kenneth: "Freaks and Geeks"
Chapter Four: Writing to Find Your Topic: Inventing, Exploring, Discovering
Thinking About Getting Started
Lee, Spike: "Journal Entries: Do the Right Thing."
Lamott, Anne: "Index Cards."
Classroom Handout: Invention Exercises
Writing to Find Your Topic
Writing about the Environment and Food and Family
Haake, Katharine: "Exercise I: Beyond the End of Writing."
Classroom handouts: Invention Exercises
Carver, Raymond: "Saturday Night."
Classroom authors:
Leah V. Marcum: "You've Got Mail (Whether You Want It or Not)
Scott Arkin: "iChat"
Chapter Five: Form to Develop Your Thoughts: Modes and Topics
Thinking About How Form and Structure May Help Develop a Topic You Already Have
Corbett, Edward and Connors, Robert: "Formulating a Thesis."
Hopkins, Evans D: "Lockdown."
Staples, Brent: "Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space."
Steiner, Donna: "Love Drunk."
Trask, Haunani-Kay: "Tourist, Stay Home"
Alexie, Sherman: "White Men Can't Drum."
Ackerman, Diane: "Mute Dancers: How to Watch a Hummingbird."
Kincaid, Jamaica: from "A Small Place"
Lopez, Barry: "My Horse."
Bishop, Wendy: "It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity"
Smith, Leonora: "The Five Paragraph Essay." (poem)
Classroom authors:
Gerrity, Maggie: "In Capital et Caritas"
Giles, Sandra: "The Mediums, Their Message"
"The Medium" (earlier version of “The Mediums, Their Message”)
Fleming, Amanda: Essay on hunting and taxidermy and other digressions, in two versions.
"Not Your Typical Martha Stewart Decorating Tip"
"Girlfriend's Guide: 'Getting that Trophy Husband'"
Chapter Six: Writers and Readers: Drafting, Responding, and Revising
Thinking About Your Methods for Drafting, Responding, and Revising
Lamott, Anne: "Shitty First Drafts."
Godwin, Gail: "The Watcher at the Gates."
Straub, Richard: "Responding, Really Responding to Writing."
Elbow, Peter and Belanoff, Pat: "Summary of Ways of Responding."
Classroom handout: The Executive Summary
Fulwiler, Toby: "A Lesson in Revision."
Dillard, Annie: "Transfiguration" and "How I Wrote the Moth Essay—And Why."
Locklin, Gerald: "Amphibians Have Feelings Too" (poem)
Pastan, Linda: "Marks" (poem)
Classroom authors:
Szczepanski, Jay: "On a Blackslick Road in Winter" and two earlier drafts
Harmon, Tom: "Watch," "Radical Revision Guy," and "Radical Revision Process Narrative"
Chapter Seven: Research and the Writer: A Joining of Voices
Thinking About the Ways All Writers Are Researchers
Elbow, Peter and Pat Belanoff: "Writing a Research Paper."
Crossley, Gay Lynn: "Making Peace with the Research Essay--One Teacher's History."
Goldthwaite, Melissa: "This Too Is Research"
Wald, Catherine: "Research and the Fiction Writer."
Greene, Stuart: "Argument as Conversation: The Role of Inquiry in Writing a Researched Argument"
Classroom Authors:
Harrington, Rachel: "Blizzard Baby."
Vaccaro, Andrea: "What Exactly is a Guide Dog?"
Torralba, Michael: "Radiohead’s 'OK Computer'."
Chapter Eight: Examining Experience: Story, Memory, and the Essay
Thinking About Story, Narrative, and the Essay
Sanders, Scott Russell: "The Most Human Art: Ten Reasons Why We’ll Always Need a Good Story."
Newman, Dean: "Becky's Mirror."
Hampl, Patricia: "Memory and Imagination."
Williams, Lynna: "We Told You This, Didn’t We?"
Kingsolver, Barbara: "In Case You Ever Want to Go Home Again."
Murray, Donald: "Trying on the Essay"
Bishop, Wendy: "Try This."
Classroom authors:
Gawrys, Keith: "The Legend of the Swine Creek Monster"
Maddox, Carlyn: "How He Should Have Died"
Szczepanski, Jay: "Story Told Simply"
Chapter Nine: Language Matters
Thinking About Writers’ Relationships to Language and Style
Julia Alvarez: "Bilingual Sestina." (poem)
Rose, Mike: "Writing Around Rules."
Joseph, Allison: "Rules of Conduct: Colored Elementary School, 1943." (poem)
Autrey, Ken: "Prepositions in Alabama." (poem)
Bishop, Wendy: "Reading, Stealing, and Writing Like a Writer."
Classroom handouts: Style Revision Exercises and Examples
Marius, Richard: "False Rules and What Is True about Them."
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.: "How to Write with Style."
Iyer, Pico: "In Praise of the Humble Comma."
Classroom authors:
Andre, Sarah M.: "Self-Analysis of Style"
Fleming, Amanda: "Style Analysis"
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