Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Definition of Poetry xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I Teaching Writing and Teaching Writing Teachers
7. Chapter One Finding a Family, Finding a Voice: A Writing Teacher Teaches Writing Teachers 15
8. Chapter Two Teaching My Class 25
9. Chapter Three Freshman Composition as a Middle-Class Enterprise 33
10. Chapter Four Textual Terror, Textual Power: Teaching Literature Through Writing Literature 54
11. Chapter Five American Autobiography and the Politics of Genre 64
12. Part II Teaching and Writing Creative Nonfiction
13. Chapter Six Teaching College English as a Woman 79
14. Chapter Seven Creative Nonfiction-Is There Any Other Kind? 88
15. Chapter Eight Reading, Writing, Teaching Essays as Jazz 104
16. Chapter Nine Why Don’t We Write What We Teach? And Publish It? 118
17. Chapter Ten Subverting the Academic Masterplot 130
18. Part III Creative Scholarship and Publication in Composition Studies
19. Chapter Eleven Coming of Age in the Field That Had No Name 143
20. Chapter Twelve Anxious Writers in Context 158
21. Chapter Thirteen “ I Write for Myself and Strangers”: Private Diaries as Public Documents 171
22. Chapter Fourteen Making Essay Connections: Editing Readers for Freshman Writers 186
23. Chapter Fifteen The Importance of External Reviews in Composition Studies 198
24. Part IV Writing Program Administration as a Creative Enterprise
25. Chapter Sixteen I Want a Writing Director 209
26. Chapter Seventeen Why I (Used to) Hate to Give Grades 212
27. Chapter Eighteen Initiation Rites, Initiation Rights 223
28. Chapter Nineteen Making a Difference: Writing Program Administration as a Creative Process 229
29. Chapter Twenty Bloom’s Laws 238
30. Afterword 241
31. Works Cited 248
32. Index 260
33. Publications Note 268
34. About the Author 270