Full Description
This version of the best-selling college handbook includes a tabbed 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. Writing about Literature also includes two sample student essays one that uses primary sources and one that uses primary and secondary sources. The full primary texts are also included."
Contents
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 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
