Dreams and Inward Journeys Book

1. Discovering Ourselves in Writing and Reading

A Process View of Writing and Reading

The Writing Process and Self-Discovery

Stages of the Writing Process

Strategies for Prewriting

Your Computer: Developing an Important Writing Partnership

The Reading Process

Personal and Interpretive Response

Critical and Evaluative Response

“Reading” Electronic Media

Thematic Introduction

Readings:

Denise Levertov, “The Secret” (poem)

Stephen King, “The Symbolic Language of Dreams” (essay)

Ursula K. Le Guin, “A Matter of Trust” (essay)

Virginia Woolf, “Professions for Women” (essay)

Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue” (essay)

Frederick Douglass, “Learning to Read and Write” (essay)

Steven Holtzman, “Don’t Look Back” (essay)

John G. Ramsay, “Hell’s Bibliophiles: The Fifth Way of Looking at an Aliterate” (essay)

Student Writing:

Joyce Chang, “Drive Becarefully”

Molly Thomas, “Response to ‘Don’t Look Back’”

Topics for Research and Writing

2. Places in Nature

Observing Nature and Writing Descriptions

Observing

Words and Images

Revising Initial Descriptions

Establishing Vantage Point and Tone

Thinking About Your Purpose and Audience

Thematic Introduction

Readings:

Naomi S. Nye, “Fireflies” (poem)

Diane Ackerman, “Deep Play” (essay)

Mary Mackey, “The Distant Cataract About Which We Do Not Speak” (essay)

Donovan Webster, “Inside the Volcano” (essay)

Jon Krakauer, “The Khumbu Icefall” (essay)

Terry Tempest Williams, “Ground Truthing” (essay)

Theodore Roszak, “The Nature of Sanity: Mental Health and the Outdoors” (essay)

Student Writing:

David Kerr, “Strawberry Creek: A Search for Origins”

Sheila Walsh, “Visualizing Our Environment: Communication of Environmental Issues Through Visual Arts”

Topics for Research and Writing

3. Journeys in Memory

Narration, Memory, and Self-Awareness

Making Associations

Focusing and Concentration: The Inner Screen

Dialogue and Characters

Main Idea or Dominant Impression

Drafting and Shaping the Narrative

Revising the Narrative: Point of View and Style

Thematic Introduction

Readings:

Mark Strand, “Where Are the Waters of Childhood?” (poem)

Patricia Hampl, “Memory and Imagination” (essay)

Saira Shah, “The Storyteller’s Daughter” (essay)

Maya Angelou, “The Angel of the Candy Counter” (essay)

Judith Ortiz Cofer, “Silent Dancing” (essay)

Rachel Naomi Remen, “Remembering” (essay)

Stephen Jay Gould, “Muller Bros. Moving & Storage” (essay)

Susan L. Engel, “The Past: Audiences and Perspectives” (essay)

Student Writing:

Melissa Burns, “The Best Seat in the House” (essay)

Topics for Research and Writing

4. Dreams, Myths, and Fairy Tales

Comparing and Contrasting: Strategies for Thinking and Writing

Prewriting for Comparison

Outlining and Transition

Evaluation

Logical Fallacies of Comparison and Contrast

Thematic Introduction

Readings:

Nikki Giovanni, “ego-tripping (there may be a reason why)” (poem)

Linda Seger, “Universal Stories”(essay)

Gabriel García Márquez, “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World: A Tale for Children” (fiction)

Marcelo Gleiser, “The Myths of Science–Creation” (essay)

Portfolio of Creation Myths:

Genesis 2:4—23 (Old Testament of the Hebrew Bible)

“How the Sun Was Made: Dawn, Noontide and Night” (Australian Aboriginal)

“The Pelasgian Creation Myth” (Ancient Greek)

“The Chameleon Finds” (Yao-Bantu, African)

“Spider Woman Creates the Humans” (Hopi, Native American)

“The Beginning of the World” (Japanese)

Bruno Bettelheim, “Fairy Tales and the Existential Predicament” (essay)

Jane Yolen, “American Cinderella” (essay)

Four Versions of Cinderella:

The Brothers Grimm, “Aschenputtel”

Charles Perrault, “Cendrillon” (adapted by Andrew Lang)

“The Algonquin Cinderella”

“Tam and Cam” (Vietnam)

Student Writing:

Joshua Groban, “Two Myths” (essay)

Topics for Research and Writing

5. Obsessions and Transformation

Definition: Word Boundaries of the Self

Public Meanings and Formal Definition

Stipulative and Personal Definitions

Contradiction

Thematic Introduction

Readings:

W. S. Merwin, “Fog-Horn” (poem)

Maressa Hecht Orzack, “Computer Addiction: What Is It?” (essay)

Andrew Solomon, “Depression” (essay)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (fiction)

Diane Ackerman, “A Slender Thread” (essay)

Anne Lamott, “Hunger” (essay)

Carrie Demers, “Chaos or Calm: Rewiring the Stress Response” (essay)

Marc Ian Barasch, “What Is a Healing Dream?” (essay)

Student Writing:

Sharon Slayton, “The Good Girl” (essay)

Topics for Research and Writing

6. Journeys in Sexuality and Gender

Causality and the Inward Journey

Observing and Collecting Information

Causal Logical Fallacies

Thematic Introduction

Readings:

Pablo Neruda, “The Dream” (poem)

Sigmund Freud, “Erotic Wishes and Dreams” (essay)

Maxine Hong Kingston, “No Name Woman” (essay)

Mary Pipher, “Saplings in the Storm” (essay)

Tajamika Paxton, “Loving a One-armed Man” (essay)

Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, “Multi-Tasking Man” (essay)

Kevin Canty, “The Dog in Me” (essay)

David Sedaris, “I Like Guys” (essay)

Student Writing:

Rosa Contreras, “On Not Being a Girl” (essay)

Julie Bordner Apodaca, “Gay Marriage: Why the Resistance?” (essay)

Topics for Research and Writing

7. The Double/The Other

Argument and Dialogue

Traditional Argument

Dialogic Argument

Dialogue and Prewriting

Prewriting and the Audience

Defining Key Terms

Evaluating Facts

Feelings in Argument

Thematic Introduction

Readings:

Judith Ortiz Cofer, “The Other” (poem)

Danny Fingeroth, “The Dual Identity: Of Pimpernels and Immigrants from the Stars” (essay)

Robert Johnson, “Owning Your Own Shadow”

Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case” from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (fiction)

Kate Sullivan, “J. Lo vs. K. Sul” (essay)

Fran Peavey (with Myrna Levy and Charles Varon), “Us and Them” (essay)

Desmond Mpilo Tutu, “No Future Without Forgiveness” (essay)

Student Writing:

Susan Voyticky, “Mixed-Up” (essay)

Jill Ho, “Affirmative Action: Perspectives from a Model Minority” (essay)

Topics for Research and Writing

8. Pop Dreams

Research Writing

Finding a Topic

Timetable and Process

Your Voice and the Voices of Your Sources

Purpose and Structure

Language and Style

The Computer as a Research Partner

Thematic Introduction

Readings:

Louise Erdrich, “Dear John Wayne” (poem)

Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson, “Pictures in Our Heads” (essay)

Alissa Quart, “Branded” (essay)

Carlin Flora, “Seeing by Starlight” (essay)

Sissela Bok, “Aggression: The Impact of Media Violence” (essay)

Jonathan L. Freedman, “Evaluating the Research on Violent Video Games” (essay)

Mark Cochrane, “Moral Abdication?” (essay)

Student Writing:

Anne Ritchie, “Creativity, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll”

Topics for Research and Writing

9. Voyages in Spirituality

Creativity, Problem Solving, and Synthesis

Habit Versus Risk

Reason Versus Intuition

Developing Self-Confidence: Learning to Trust Your Own Processes

Evaluation and Application

Synthesis

Thematic Introduction

Readings:

Emily Dickinson, “#501, This World Is Not Conclusion” (poem)

Annie Dillard, “A Field of Silence” (essay)

Jane Goodall, “In the Forests of Gombe” (essay)

Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream” (essay)

Jim Wallis, “Taking Back the Faith” (essay)

Noah Levine, “Death Is Not the End My Friend” (essay)

Linda Hogan, “The Voyagers” (essay)

Student Writing:

Norman Yeung Bik Chung, “A Faithful Taoist”

Karen Methot-Chun, “Living Spirituality”

Topics for Research and Writing