I. Imagining worlds: the reading and writing process. 1. Keeping a journal. 2. From reader's journal to finished text. II. Reading and writing about literature. 3. Reading and writing about stories."Helping to lie" (German folk tale) -- Writing in response to fiction: a student casebook -- "Field trip" / Tim O'Brien -- Reactions on reading "Field trip" / Laurie Fiedler -- "Then" (short story written in response to "Field trip") -- "Now" (essay written as an analysis and interpretation of "Field trip"). 4. Reading and writing about essays. "Professions for women" / Virginia Woolf -- Writing in response to essays: a student casebook -- Reactions on reading "Professions for women" (journal entry) / Kim Carlson -- "No respect" (story written in response to "Professions for women") -- Angels, devils, angels, devils... (essay written in response to "Professions for women"). 5. Reading and writing about poetry.
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant, " / Emily Dickinson -- Writing in response to poetry: a student casebook -- "Nani" (poem) / Alberto Alvaro Ríos -- Reactions on reading "Nani" / Julian Castro -- "'Nani': an analysis" -- "Vas a vivir a dos cien". 6. Reading and writing about drama. Writing in response to drama: a student casebook -- Open admissions / Shirley Lauro -- Reactions on reading Open admissions / Julie Layard -- "Reading response to Open admissions" -- Communication in Open admissions. III. Themes and genres. 7. Creativity. Writings by: Eliot, Woolf, Harrison, Basso, Paley, Naipaul, McCluskey, Beattie, Tolkien, Hampl, Harjo, hooks, Baca, Keats, Levertov, McKay, Divakaruni, Yeats, cummings, Moore, Stevens, Hughes, Thomas, Williams, Giovanni, Woo, Willard, Smith, Wilson, Luo.
8. Initiations and passages. Writings by: Grimm, Frank, Benedict, Milosz, Achebe, Huggan, Joyce, Fuentes, Olsen, Bambara, Cofer, Angelou, Dorris, White, Plath, Kumin, Soto, Yeats, Levine, Frost, Olds, Lorde, Marcus, Levertov, Roethke, Brooks, Bidart, Harper, Lee, Lim, Rukeyser, Henley, Angel, Beacom. 9. Relationships. Kollwitz, Sarton, Spender, Tan, Hemingway, Leavitt, Baldwin, Mukherjee, Marriott, Rodriguez, Tannen, Howard, Shakespeare, Levine, Gallagher, Cofer, Browning, Clifton, Heaney, Reyna, Howe, Hashimoto, Tao-Sheng, Mura, Berger, Frost, Brooks, Cervantes, Randall, Whitman, Miller, Bullins, Yamauchi, Bounds.
10. Struggles. Writings by: Andersen, Guevara, Early, de Jesus, Gilman, McPherson, Thiong'o, Erdrich, Böll, Valenzuela, Orwell, King, Kingston, Hamilton, Blake, Alegría, Sexton, Espada, Hardy, Lowell, Barreca, Brooks, Cervantes, Mar, Jordan, Sepamla, Baca, Wilbur, Wayman, Randall, Endo, Sophocles, Sanchez-Scott, Taylor. 11. Natural worlds. Writings by: Ling, Emerson, Hopkins, Ehrlich, Hubbell, Hawthorne, Crane, Jewett, Le Guin, Woody, Thoreau, Eiseley, Ehrlich, Silko, Hopkins, Atwood, Bear, Graham, Wordsworth, Whitman, Frost, McKay, Dickinson, Wright, Rilke, Piercy, Cardiff, Bogan, Stafford, Kumin, Dickey, Synge, Soyinka, Rostoker.
12. Hauntings and reflections. Writings by: Hogan, Jung, Vining, Forster, Allende, Mishima, Bowen, Birtha, Day, Momaday, Hongo, Walker, Dillard, Frost, Cofer, Murray, Lee, Whiteman, Shelley, Merwin, Roethke, Plath, Dickey, Mora, Erdrich, Riós, Song, Donne, Thomas, Ginsberg, Kumin, Shakespeare, Wilkinson. Appendices: Research writing -- MLA documentation.
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