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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... values . In Chapter 1 , “ Discovering Ourselves in Reading and Writing , " you will ex- plore the ways in which reading is an active process that encourages the reader to understand and clarify her or his inner resources and values in ...
... values of each new age . Today's popular myths provide readers with revised values and reflections on changing cultural norms . This chapter begins with a poem , essays , and a story that reveal the power of myths in the lives of ...
... values ? What impact has it had on your own values ? 2. Write about a value or tradition related to gender role or sexuality that your grandparents or parents accepted and that you have rebelled against . What do you think influenced ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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