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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... mother says . Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent . Some say they understand none of it , as if she were speaking pure Chinese . But to me , my mother's English is perfectly clear , perfectly natural . It's my mother tongue . Her ...
... mothers . So with this reader in mind — and in fact she did read my early drafts - I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with : the English I spoke to my mother , which for lack of a better term might be described ...
... mother's nonstandard English in light of reading Amy Tan's essay , " Mother Tongue . " " My mother's ' limited ' English limited my perception of her . I was ashamed of her English . " Amy Tan's self - evaluation in her essay , " Mother ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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