Writing As Revelation

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Ford, Marjorie

Ford, Jon

Words, Language & Grammar

Harpercollins College Div

COMING FROM HOME is an innovative reader arranged around the theme of families and the importance of community. Containing 71 selections--essays (including student essays), poems, stories, and memoirs--it provides a variety of ethnic, cultural, economic, sociological, psychological, and literary perspectives. Journal writing and intertextual questions (asking students to work with common threads within a number of works) characterize the extensive, integrated pedagogical support that contributes to making COMING FROM HOME the basis for an exciting and unusually effective focus for writing courses.

Coming from Home: Readings for Writers

Watters, Ann

Literature & Fiction

Mcgraw-Hill College

This exciting anthology presents a fresh perspective on the role that literature plays in our lives, shaping our feelings, thoughts and cultures. IMAGINING WORLDS encourages a variety of personal and analytic responses to literature and literary non-fiction with its thematic focus and its wide range of genres, cultures, disciplines, and assignments. Two introductory chapters on reading, journal writing, and writing as processes of discovery are followed by chapters on the four genres of literature that fully explain and illustrate the process of writing about literature within the context of student casebooks. Six thematic chapters provide a rich collection of readings and engaging writing topics.

Imagining Worlds

History & Criticism

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

RESPONDING VOICES features a broad range of voices, professional and student, with innovative pedagogy designed to motivate students to produce writing that is powerful and committed in its voice, ideas, support, and structure. Thematically arranged, the text encourages students to write in response to a range of essays, stories, and poems, and develop their own positions on contemporary issues. Longer end-of-chapter writing activities provide opportunities for making connections among readings and for developing longer, independent writing projects.

Responding Voices: A Reader for Emerging Writers

Hughes,Elaine

This best-selling collection of readings explores the theme of dreams, the imagination, and the reasoning mind. Supporting a creative approach to the teaching of writing, Dreams and Inward Journeys presents a rich mixture of personal and academic essays, stories, and poems. The readings touch on such topics as memory, myths and fairy tales, obsessions, sexuality, gender roles, technology, popular culture, nature, and spirituality. Readings encourage the investigation of new ways of seeing and understanding self and the relationship to important 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, a range of writing assignments, and sample papers. Beautiful, stimulating art opens each chapter to support the theme and provide prompts for prewriting.

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Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Pearson

This wonderful book is an anthology for introduction to fiction courses that offers a wide-ranging, fresh collection of stories. The book is a chronological organization with casebooks scattered throughout providing literary, cultural, and biographical information; and introductory chapters that are more accessible and student-oriented than anything comparable in a competing book. The book outlines the history of the short story, from its origins outside and within Europe, integrating a world perspective that includes the evolution of the modern story from its folk origins. For anyone interested in Short Stories or Creative Writing with an emphasis on fiction.

Web of Stories, A: An Introduction to Short Fiction

Ford, Majorie

PRENTICE/HALL

Dreams and Inward Journeys

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Changing Minds is a collection of classic and contemporary readings designed to acquaint readers with strategies for developing effective, persuasive arguments and to demonstrate the rich and complex nature of persuasive writing through essays from a wide variety of contexts. An introductory chapter presents essential elements of argument, as well as common strategies and misunderstandings, and is followed by nine thematic chapters, each including a brief introduction and eight essays. The thematic chapters integrate opportunities for stengthening reading and critical thinking skills through a focus on issues that have had an evolving and controversial history.

Changing Minds: Arguments on Contemporary and Enduring Issues

Longman

This best-selling collection of readings explores the theme of dreams, the imagination, and the reasoning mind. Dreams and Inward Journeys presents a rich mixture of personal and academic essays, stories, and poems. The readings touch on such topics as memory, myths and fairy tales, obsessions, sexuality, gender roles, technology, popular culture, nature, and spirituality. Beautiful, stimulating art opens each chapter to support the theme and provide prompts for prewriting.

Dreams and Inward Journeys (7th Edition)

A truly unique book in its field, Dreams and Inward Journeys,4/e explores the relationships between self-understanding, reading and writing. Chapters include reflective essays, poems, memory, gender roles, the anti-self, social definitions of self, and the visionary process itself. The emphasis on dreams and the imagination has been proven to excite and motivate students.

Dreams and Inward Journeys: A Rhetoric and Reader for Writers

Longman Pub. Group

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