We discuss the use of writing in connected introductory psychohlogy and English courses to help students integrate the two fields. We describe the readings and themes that link our courses, and the sequence of paper topics that engages students in increasingly complicated intellectual tasks. A dialogic, inductive method of teaching and developing paper topics is detailed. Our approach supports students' movement from the personal and subjective toward autonomy and objectivity in their thinking and writing.
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