Writing Essays About Literature: A Brief Guide for University and College Students - Softcover

Acheson, Katherine O.

 
9781551119922: Writing Essays About Literature: A Brief Guide for University and College Students
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1551119927 ISBN 13: 9781551119922
Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

This book gives students an answer to the question, “What does my professor want from this essay?” In lively, direct language, it explains the process of creating “a clearly-written argument, based on evidence, about the meaning, power, or structure of a literary work.” Using a single poem by William Carlos Williams as the basis for the process of writing a paper about a piece of literature, it walks students through the processes of reading, brainstorming, researching secondary sources, gathering evidence, and composing and editing the paper.

Writing Essays About Literature is designed to strengthen argumentation skills and deepen understanding of the relationships between the reader, the author, the text, and critical interpretations. Its lessons about clarity, precision, and the importance of providing evidence will have wide relevance for student writers.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Katherine O. Acheson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo and the editor of the Broadview Edition of Lady Anne Clifford’s Memoir of 1603 and Diary of 1616–19.

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This book gives students an answer to the question, What does my professor want from this essay? In lively, direct language, it explains the process of creating a clearly-written argument, based on evidence, about the meaning, power, or structure of a literary work. Using a single poem by William Carlos Williams as the basis for the process of writing a paper about a piece of literature, it walks students through the processes of reading, brainstorming, researching secondary sources, gathering evidence, and composing and editing the paper.

Writing Essays About Literature is designed to strengthen argumentation skills and deepen understanding of the relationships between the reader, the author, the text, and critical interpretations. Its lessons about clarity, precision, and the importance of providing evidence will have wide relevance for student writers.

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Verlag
Broadview Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1551119927
ISBN 13 
9781551119922
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
175
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