Table of Contents -- Preface Marla Morris -- Foreword Mary Aswell Doll -- Introduction William F. Pinar -- Chapter 1 . . . . . . The Web and the Work Mary Aswell Doll -- Chapter 2 . . . . . . Curriculum as Musical Text Marla Morris -- Chapter 3 . . . . . . The Fire Sermon Jamake Highwater -- Chapter 4 . . . . . . The Real Work Is What We Really Do David W. Jardine -- Chapter 5 . . . . . . On Writing My Love Child Denise Taliaferro -- Chapter 6 . . . . . . Inventing a More Interesting Subject Dennis J. Sumara and Brent Davis -- Chapter 7 . . . . . . " Nothing's Died -- It Just Got Buried" : Theory as Exhumation, as Duty Dance -- Chapter 8 . . . . . . Why I Write Bill Davis -- Chapter 9 . . . . . . How I Work Peter Alson -- Chapter 10 . . . . . . Acts of Love and Discovery Jane Futcher -- Chapter 11 . . . . . . " Johnny's in the Basement, Mixing Up the Medicine," or I'll Trade You Two Metaphors for a Metonymy Alan A. Block -- Chapter 12 . . . . . . Contrariety and Commitment: Wedding Passions Lance Ternasky -- Chapter 13 . . . . . . On Lemmas, Theorems, Corollaries, and All That MikeSiddoway -- Chapter 14 . . . . . . Many a New Thing Skip Fox -- Chapter 15 . . . . . . Through a Tangle of Branches: Reworking the Poem Rebecca Luce- Kapler -- Chapter 16 . . . . . . Writing with/ in Leftovers Delese Wear -- Chapter 17 . . . . . . " Whatever Gets You Through the Night" ( John Lennon, 1974) Susan Edgerton -- Chapter 18 . . . . . . How I Work William F. Pinar -- Chapter 19 . . . . . . A Truthful Tale About How I Work Petra Munro -- Chapter 20 . . . . . . Upstairs Lewis Putnam Turco -- Chapter 21 . . . . . . Writing the Classed Body: " Is It Work Yet?" Wendy Kohli -- Chapter 22 . . . . . . Putting Coyolxauhqui Together: A Creative Process Gloria Anzaldúa -- Chapter 23 . . . . . . Should We Be Working? Marshall Parks -- Contributors.