This revised and retitled edition of Searching Writing includes two additional I-Search papers, one by
a teacher, and a new chapter entitled "The Larger Context," which shows how the I Search concept can
work throughout the whole curriculum in school and college. As with the first edition, The I-Search Paper
is more than just a textbook; it's a new form of instructional help -- a context book -- that shows students what
authority is in matters of learning and invites them to join the author and teacher in the educational movement
called "Writing to Learn."
To put this book in the hands of all the students in the course is not only to help them carry out an I-Search
but to introduce them in a delightful way to the resources and tools of intellectual inquiry -- but one that never
forgets the emotional or physical side of human activity.
This is a rare textbook that treats students as partners in learning. It shows what it is to take charge of one's
own learning and suggests that this move is one that productive people keep making throughout their lives.
Table of Contents
I. Writing Every Day
1. Free Writing
2. Loopy Learning
3. Throwing Back the English
4. Truthtelling
5. Cutting Wasted Words
II. I-Searching
6. The I-Search Paper
7. A Topic Choosing You
8. Locating Sources
9. Tell It as Story
10. Talking Animals
11. Interviewing
12. I and the Others
13. Objectivity and Subjectivity
14. Five I-Search Papers
III. Becoming an Editor
15. Bad Words
16. Getting the Point
17. Editing Day
IV. Looking in the Cupboard
18. Filled with Books
19. Issued Periodically
20. A Profundity of Learning?
21. Sam and Noah
22. Historical Lexicography
23. Spellynge, Spellyng, Spelling
24. "Can I Become a Writer?"
25. The Larger Context
