A Writer's Reference with Writing About Literature
Description
Writing about Literature is 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.
Writing about Literature also includes two sample student essays - one that uses only a primary source and one that uses primary and secondary sources.
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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.
Nancy Sommers, who has taught composition and directed composition programs for thirty years, now teaches in 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.
Content
1 Reading to form an interpretation.- 2 Planning the paper.- 3 Writing the paper.- 4 Observing conventions.- 5 Integrating quotations from the text.- 6 Using secondary sources.- 7 Sample papers.