The subject is reading: essays by teachers and students

Pt. I. Reading College, Readers in College

1. Making Meaning - Your Own Meaning - When You Read / Deborah Coxwell Teague

Student Narrative 1. Learning How Not to Read / Kirk Parrott

2. Reading ... It's Not Just Books Anymore / Dan Melzer

Student Narrative 2. Why It Took So Long / Lysa Moorefield

3. Reading Radically or Radically Reading ... How I Try to Get to the Root of Things / Lisa Albrecht

Student Narrative 3. Learning to Read: For Me It's Been the Struggle of a Lifetime / Chris Olson

4. Open Letter to Jason Smith / Ormond Loomis

Pt. II. Reading Yourself Reading

5. Why We Read (or Not): A Class Discussion / Jennifer Ahern

Student Narrative 4. Reading Rooms / Dawn Maria Lieber

Student Narrative 5. It's a Gradual Thing / Rob Adams

6. (Reading) Literacy Narrative: A Limited Catalog of an Unlimited Resource / Wendy Bishop

Pt. III. Writers as Readers

7. Interpreting Poetry: A Song of Reading / Darrell Fike

8. Extraordinary Readings of Ordinary Lives: Interpreting Personal and Cultural Ideologies / Kim Haimes-Korn

9. Your Homework for Tonight: Read TV! / Susan Taylor

10. Go Back and Fetch It: A Method for Decoding Texts / Akua Duku Anokye, Jamie Barlowe and Camille Cain

Pt. IV. Reading to Write

11. Making and Examining Strong Statements About Reading: A Journal Inventory / Wendy Bishop

12. Discovery Reading: Conversations About Trifles / Karen Schiff and Art Young

13. Angles of Revision: Using Purposeful, Dramatic Reading for Revision / Devan Cook

14. Making Peace with the Research Essay: One Teacher's History / Gay Lynn Crossley

Pt. V. Reading Futures

15. Reading and the Art of Berry Picking / Myka Vielstimmig

16. Spiders, Flies, and Other Creatures of Reading's Brave New World / Hans Ostrom, Sarah Sloane and Wade Williams / [et al.]

Pt. VI. Hint Sheets for Students (A-K) and Teachers (1-5)

A. Process Cover Sheet / Wendy Bishop

B. Summary of Inventions for Beginning a Literacy Narrative / Wendy Bishop

C. Discussion Questions and Activities for "From Books and Articles to Websites and Newsgroups" / Dan Melzer

D. Ways to Respond to a Literary Text / Wendy Bishop

E. Small Group Exercises for Reading and Responding to Literary Texts / Wendy Bishop

F. Collaborative Project - Reading Ordinary Lives: Personal and Cultural Ideologies / Kim Haimes-Korn

G. Group Process and Evaluation Assignment / Kim Haimes-Korn

H. Class Reading Survey / Wendy Bishop

I. First-Year Writing Students' Descriptions of Reading / Wendy Bishop

J. First-Year Writing Students' Advice for Improving Your Reading Process / Wendy Bishop

K. Ideas for Revision Based on Rhetorical Reading / Devan Cook

1. Teaching "Interpreting Poetry: A Song of Reading" / Darrell Fike

2. Investigating Why We Read (or Not) / Jennifer Ahern

3. Teaching with "An Open Letter" / Ormond Loomis

4. Examination of Teaching Sankofa / Camille Cain, Akua Duku Anokye and Jamie Barlowe

5. After Reading "Making Peace with the Research Paper" / Gay Lynn Crossley.