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Tables of Contents for Writing Without Teachers
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction to the Second Edition
xi
1 FREEWRITING EXERCISES
3
10
How freewriting exercises help
4
3
Freewriting and garbage
7
2
Keep a freewriting diary
9
1
Using freewriting exercises for finding subjects to write about
9
1
Producing a finished piece of writing
10
3
2 THE PROCESS OF WRITING-GROWING
13
35
Autobiographical digression
16
2
It makes a difference in practice
18
4
Growing
22
3
Start writing and keep writing
25
5
Chaos and disorientation
30
5
Emerging center of gravity
35
3
Editing
38
4
Growing as a developmental process
42
6
3 THE PROCESS OF WRITING-COOKING
48
28
Cooking as interaction between people
49
1
Cooking as interaction between ideas
50
1
Cooking as interaction between words and ideas, between immersion and perspective
51
2
Cooking as interaction between metaphors
53
1
Cooking as interaction between genres and modes
54
1
Cooking as interaction between you and symbols on paper
55
1
Noncooking
56
4
Desperation writing
60
4
The goal is cooking
64
3
Cooking and energy
67
2
Goodness and badness
69
1
Why the old, wrong model of writing persists
70
2
Conclusion
72
4
4 THE TEACHERLESS WRITING CLASS
76
41
Setting up the class
78
7
Giving movies of your mind
85
8
Further advice to readers
93
8
Advice to the writer on listening
101
5
The class process
106
11
5 THOUGHTS ON THE TEACHERLESS WRITING CLASS
117
30
How I came to this approach
117
4
Huh?
121
3
Why the teacherless class helps make writing easier
124
3
Why the teacherless class helps make writing better
127
6
People learn from the truth, even though the truth is a mess
133
1
The process of learning writing
134
2
What about grammar?
136
3
The yogurt model
139
1
Subjective bullshit
140
1
Multiple-choice diary
141
6
Appendix Essay: THE DOUBTING GAME AND THE BELIEVING GAME-AN ANALYSIS OF THE INTELLECTUAL ENTERPRISE
147
46
The monopoly of the doubting game
149
2
The truth about meaning and words
151
7
Short digression on the New Critics
158
1
Why the doubting game doesn't work with assertions of meaning
159
3
The believing muscle
162
4
Meaning-making as gestalt-making
166
2
The myth of the laboratory rat
168
1
Believing and doubting as dialectics
169
5
The two dialectics as games
174
2
The believing game in action: fighting the itch for closure
176
2
The two games as reinforcers of different character traits
178
3
Fears of the believing game
181
6
Speculations on the history of the believing game
187
3
Conclusion: the interdependence of the two games
190
3
Appendix: A COUPLE OF NOTES TO MYSELF
193
6
WORKS CITED
199
2
A FEW BOOKS TO HELP WITH CORRECT USAGE
201
4
REMINDERS TO KEEP IN VIEW DURING A TEACHERLESS WRITING CLASS
205