On Writing: A Process Reader

IntroductionsTo the Writing Student To the Writing Teacher Each chapter includes 'Connecting to Reading'; 'Connecting to Writing'; and Writing ProjectsChapter One: Writers and Ways of Writing Thinking About Definitions of "Writer" and the Processes Writers Choose and UseMoore, Lorrie: "How to Become a Writer."Marshal, Paule. "The Poets in the Kitchen."Wilbur, Richard: "The Writer." (poem)Yolen, Jane: "[on her writing process]".Weathers, Winston: "The Winston Weathers Writing Way: A Self-Examination."Williams, Terry Tempest Classroom authors:Debbie Olander: "The Fortunes"Brian Overcast: "Brambles"Chapter Two: The Literacy NarrativeThinking About the Literacy NarrativeBrown, Christy: "The Letter A"De Chungara, Domitila (with Moema Viezzer): "Let Me Speak!"Hughes, Langston: "Theme for English B." (poem)Mellix, Barbara: "From Outside, In."Rodriguez, Richard: "Going Home Again."Simpson, Eileen: "Dyslexia"Wright, Richard: "The Library Card."Tan, Amy: "Mother Tongue."Classroom authors:Armstrong, Stephen B.: "A Trip to the Lake" Bacque, E. Andree: "Drop Everything and Read"Olson, Chris: "Learning to Read: For Me It's Been the Struggle of a Lifetime."Chapter Three: Considering Community and AudienceThinking About Your Interactions With Other Writers and ReadersCorbett, Edward and Robert Connors: "A Brief Explanation of Classical Rhetoric."Rose, Mike: "The Discourse of Academics"Graff, Gerald: "Disliking Books at an Early Age"Aagard, John: "Listen Mr. Oxford Don."Dove, Rita: "To Make a Prairie."Witkin, Stanley L.: "Writing Social Work."Shen, Fan: "The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition."Fulwiler, Toby: "The Role of Audiences."Teaque, Deborah Coxwell: "Making Meaning - Your Own Meaning - When You Read"Classroom authors:Lauren, Benjamin: "What Are We Doing with Our Pennies?"Marcum, Leah V.: "Storm Surge."Reeves, Kenneth: "Freaks and Geeks"Chapter Four: Writing to Find Your Topic: Inventing, Exploring, DiscoveringThinking About Getting StartedLee, Spike: "Journal Entries: Do the Right Thing." Lamott, Anne: "Index Cards."Classroom Handout: Invention ExercisesWriting to Find Your TopicWriting about the Environment and Food and FamilyHaake, Katharine: "Exercise I: Beyond the End of Writing."Classroom handouts: Invention ExercisesCarver, Raymond: "Saturday Night."Classroom authors:Leah V. Marcum: "You've Got Mail (Whether You Want It or Not)Scott Arkin: "iChat"Chapter Five: Form to Develop Your Thoughts: Modes and TopicsThinking About How Form and Structure May Help Develop a Topic You Already HaveCorbett, Edward and Connors, Robert: "Formulating a Thesis." Hopkins, Evans D: "Lockdown."Staples, Brent: "Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space."Steiner, Donna: "Love Drunk."Trask, Haunani-Kay: "Tourist, Stay Home"Alexie, Sherman: "White Men Can't Drum."Ackerman, Diane: "Mute Dancers: How to Watch a Hummingbird."Kincaid, Jamaica: from "A Small Place"Lopez, Barry: "My Horse."Bishop, Wendy: "It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity"Smith, Leonora: "The Five Paragraph Essay." (poem)Classroom authors:Gerrity, Maggie: "In Capital et Caritas"Giles, Sandra: "The Mediums, Their Message""The Medium" (earlier version of "The Mediums, Their Message")Fleming, Amanda: Essay on hunting and taxidermy and other digressions, in two versions."Not Your Typical Martha Stewart Decorating Tip""Girlfriend's Guide: 'Getting that Trophy Husband'"Chapter Six: Writers and Readers: Drafting, Responding, and RevisingThinking About Your Methods for Drafting, Responding, and RevisingLamott, Anne: "Shitty First Drafts."Godwin, Gail: "The Watcher at the Gates."Straub, Richard: "Responding, Really Responding to Writing."Elbow, Peter and Belanoff, Pat: "Summary of Ways of Responding."Classroom handout: The Executive SummaryFulwiler, Toby: "A Lesson in Revision."Dillard, Annie: "Transfiguration" and "How I Wrote the Moth Essay-And Why."Locklin, Gerald: "Amphibians Have Feelings Too" (poem)Pastan, Linda: "Marks" (poem)Classroom authors:Szczepanski, Jay: "On a Blackslick Road in Winter" and two earlier drafts Harmon, Tom: "Watch," "Radical Revision Guy," and "Radical Revision Process Narrative"Chapter Seven: Research and the Writer: A Joining of VoicesThinking About the Ways All Writers Are ResearchersElbow, Peter and Pat Belanoff: "Writing a Research Paper."Crossley, Gay Lynn: "Making Peace with the Research Essay--One Teacher's History."Goldthwaite, Melissa: "This Too Is Research"Wald, Catherine: "Research and the Fiction Writer."Greene, Stuart: "Argument as Conversation: The Role of Inquiry in Writing a Researched Argument"Classroom Authors:Harrington, Rachel: "Blizzard Baby."Vaccaro, Andrea: "What Exactly is a Guide Dog?"Torralba, Michael: "Radiohead's 'OK Computer'."Chapter Eight: Examining Experience: Story, Memory, and the EssayThinking About Story, Narrative, and the EssaySanders, Scott Russell: "The Most Human Art: Ten Reasons Why We'll Always Need a Good Story."Newman, Dean: "Becky's Mirror."Hampl, Patricia: "Memory and Imagination."Williams, Lynna: "We Told You This, Didn't We?"Kingsolver, Barbara: "In Case You Ever Want to Go Home Again."Murray, Donald: "Trying on the Essay"Bishop, Wendy: "Try This."Classroom authors:Gawrys, Keith: "The Legend of the Swine Creek Monster"Maddox, Carlyn: "How He Should Have Died"Szczepanski, Jay: "Story Told Simply"Chapter Nine: Language MattersThinking About Writers' Relationships to Language and StyleJulia Alvarez: "Bilingual Sestina." (poem)Rose, Mike: "Writing Around Rules."Joseph, Allison: "Rules of Conduct: Colored Elementary School, 1943." (poem)Autrey, Ken: "Prepositions in Alabama." (poem)Bishop, Wendy: "Reading, Stealing, and Writing Like a Writer."Classroom handouts: Style Revision Exercises and ExamplesMarius, Richard: "False Rules and What Is True about Them." Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.: "How to Write with Style."Iyer, Pico: "In Praise of the Humble Comma."Classroom authors: Andre, Sarah M.: "Self-Analysis of Style"Fleming, Amanda: "Style Analysis"