A Writer's Reference with Writing About Literature
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For more than 25 years, this bestselling handbook has allowed students to build confidence and take ownership of their college writing experience. This version includes a section called Writing about Literature, a practical guide to interpreting works of literature and to planning, composing, and documenting papers about literature. Students will find help with forming and supporting an interpretation, avoiding plot summary, integrating quotations from a literary work, observing the conventions of literature papers, and using secondary sources.
This is an ideal text for English Composition courses, foundation year modules, English degree programmes, and those studying English Literature.
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Diana Hacker personally class-tested her handbooks with nearly four thousand students over thirty-five years at Prince George's Community College in Maryland, where she was a member of the English faculty. Hacker handbooks, built on innovation and on a keen understanding of the challenges facing student writers, are the most widely adopted in America. Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin's, include The Bedford Handbook, Ninth Edition (2014); A Writer's Reference, Eighth Edition (2015); Rules for Writers, Eighth Edition (2016); and A Pocket Style Manual, Seventh Edition (2015).
Nancy Sommers, who has taught composition and directed composition programs for thirty years, now teaches writing and mentors new writing teachers at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. She led Harvard's Expository Writing Program for twenty years, directing the first-year writing program and establishing Harvard's WAC program. A two-time Braddock Award winner, Sommers is well known for her research and publications on student writing. Her articles "Revision Strategies of Student and Experienced Writers" and "Responding to Student Writing" are two of the most widely read and anthologized articles in the field of composition. Her recent work involves a longitudinal study of college writing to understand the role writing plays in undergraduate education. Sommers is the lead author on Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin's, and is coauthor of Fields of Reading, Tenth Edition (2013)
Content
C Composing and Revising.- A Academic Reading, Writing, and Speaking.- S Sentence Style.- W Word Choice.- G Grammatical Sentences.- M Multilingual Writers and ESL Challenges.- P Punctuation and Mechanics.- B Basic Grammar.- R Researching.- MLA Papers.- APA and CMS Papers.- L Writing about Literature.- L1 Reading to form an interpretation.- L2 Planning the paper.- L3 Writing the paper.- L4 Observing conventions.- L5 Integrating quotations from the text.- L6 Using secondary sources.- L7 Sample papers.