Pt. I. Premises and Foundations. 1. Literacy at Oxford and Harvard: Reflections on the Inability to Write. 2. A Map of Writing in Terms of Audience and Response. 3. The Uses of Binary Thinking -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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? -- Pt. IV. Discourses. 11. Reflections on Academic Discourse: How It Relates to Freshmen and Colleagues. 12. In Defense of Private Writing: Consequences for Theory and Research. 13. The War Between Reading and Writing - and How to End It. 14. Your Cheatin' Art: A Collage -- Pt. 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.