• Introduction
• Part I: Premises and Foundations
• 1: Illiteracy at Oxford and Harvard: Reflections on the Inability to Write
• 2: A Map of Writing in Terms of Audience and Response; The Uses of Binary Thinking
• Part II: The Generative Dimension
• 4: Freewriting and the Problem of Wheat and Tares
• 5: Closing My Eyes as I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience
• 6: Toward a Phenomenology of Freewriting
• Part III: Speech, Writing, and Voice
• Part III: Speech, Writing, and Voice
• 7: The Shifting Relationships Between Speech and Writing
• 8: Voice in Literature
• 9: Silence: A Collage
• 10: What Is Voice in Writing?
• Part IV: Discourses
• 11: Reflections on Academic Discourse: How It Relates to Freshmen and Colleagues
• 12: In Defense of Private Writing
• 13: The War Between Reading and Writing - and How to End It
• 14: Your Cheatin' Art: A Collage
• Part V: Teaching
• 15: Inviting the Mother Tongue: Beyond "Mistakes", "Bad English," and Wrong Language"
• 16: High Stakes and Low Stakes in Assigning and Responding to Writing
• 17: Breathing Life into the Text
• 18: Using the Collage for Collaborative Writing
• 19: Getting Along Without Grades - and Getting Along With Them Too
• 20: Starting the Portfolio Experiment at SUNY Stony Brook Pat Belanoff, co-author
• 21: Writing an Assessment in the Twenty-First Century: A Utopian View