Dreams and Inward Journeys: A Rhetoric and Reader for WritersThis best-selling collection of readings explores the theme of dreams, the imagination, and the heart connected to the reasoning mind. Supporting a creative approach to the teaching of writing, Dreams and Inward Journeys presents a rich mixture of reflective essays, stories, and poems. Thematically focused on dream-related topics, the readings chapters discuss such topics as memory, myths/fairy tales, obsessions, sexuality, gender roles, the other, technology, popular culture, nature, and spirituality. Readings move from the personal to the abstract, encouraging students to investigate new ways of seeing and understanding themselves and their relationship to fundamental social issues and universal human concerns. Featuring a dual thematic and rhetorical organization, each chapter also provides practical writing advice on a specific rhetorical pattern, strategies for writing, critical thinking questions, and two to three student sample papers. Beautiful, stimulating art opens each chapter to support the theme and provide prompts for prewriting. |
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... develop your confidence and skills as a writer . Both of the student essays included in this chapter were developed from journal entries that focused on strong inner experiences and images that initially seemed very private but were ...
... developing your ideas clearly and will confuse reader . You also need to decide how you plan to use your definition : What will its purpose be ? your Once you have created the initial definition , you can proceed to develop your ...
... developed by your rational mind . For example , after you have finished the first draft of a paper , go for a walk ... Develop criteria for evaluating papers as you go along . Soon you will find that you have estab- lished a vocabulary ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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