Dreams and Inward Journeys, 6/E
Marjorie Ford
Jon Ford

ISBN-10: 0321366026
ISBN-13: 9780321366023

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 608 pp
Published: 02/20/2006

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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 students to investigate new ways of seeing and understanding themselves and their 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 student papers. Beautiful, stimulating art opens each chapter to support the theme and provide prompts for prewriting.

  • Notable Authors likeVirginia Woolf, Stephen King, Terry Tempest Williams, Mark Strand, Pablo Neruda, David Sedaris, Desmond Tutu, and Linda Hogan make this an impressive, as well as unique, collection of readings.
  • A vast array of writing genres is presented, including argument essays, analytical essays, memoirs, poems, and stories.
  • Chapters open with both a rhetorical and thematic introduction; for example, Chapter 4 compares traditional and modern myths and offers writing guidelines for developing a comparison/contrast essay.
  • One or two sample student essays appear at the end of each chapter to demonstrate how a student might explore the chapter’s theme and to model the rhetorical strategy introduced at the beginning of the chapter.
  • “Journal” prompts preceding the reading selections encourage informal and expressive writing.
  • Following each reading, “Questions for Discussion” and “Ideas for Writing” assignments encourage close analytical reading and a variety of written responses to the reading.
  • Following each reading selection, a “Connection” question asks students to make connections among different readings in a chapter and throughout the book.
  • Each reading selection is also accompanied by two topic-related “Related Web Sites” URLs that offer resources for further reading and research on the topic of that reading.
  • End of chapter “Topics for Research and Writing” assignments offer ideas for longer writing projects, including researched essays.

  • Thirty-seven new and noteworthy readings  are included, such as Ursula K. Le Guin, “A Matter of Trust”; Diane Ackerman,”A Slender Thread”; Theodore Roszak, “The Nature of Sanity: Mental Health and the Out of Doors”; Desmond Tutu’s “No Future Without Forgiveness”and  Alissa Quart, “Branded.”
  • Extensively revised Chapter 2, “Places in Nature” features pieces by Naomi S. Nye, Mary Mackey, Terry Tempest Williams, Jon Krakauer
  • Extensively revised Chapter 6, “Journeys in Sexuality and Gender,” includes the work of Pablo Neruda, Mary Pipher, Maxine Hong Kingston, Rachel Lehman-Haupt and Kevin Canty.
  • A new Chapter 8, “Pop Dreams,” includes selections that discuss America’s consumer culture, our reliance on “brand names,” the status given to “celebrities” in our culture, and media and video game violence. Highlights of the chapter include selections by Alissa Quart, Louise Erdrich, and Sissela Bok, as well as a new student research paper on rock and roll and creativity.
  • Dreams has always featured a wealth of student writing (with 1 or 2 full length students essays in every chapter). This edition includes new student essays in Chapters 2, 8, and 9.
  • Updated “Relevant Web Sites” links are included each reading in the 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

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