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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... side tunnels . In the hope of finding out what these side tunnels were for , we en- tered one . There was no flowing water as in the main tunnel ; this tunnel was dry . The ground was very smooth and silky with soft ripples like an ...
... side of the hedge " ? How is the landscape different ? In what type of activities do the citizens partic- ipate ? How do they feel about progress and achievement ? 5. What is your response to the narrator's initial reaction to the world ...
... side of the seesaw and the ones that do not conform on the left . It is an inexorable law that no characteristic can be discarded ; it can only be moved to a different point on the seesaw . A cultured person is one who has the desired ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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