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Roberts,  Writing About Literature - Brief, 11/E

• NEW - Chapter 1—“Preliminary: The Process of Reading, Responding to, and Writing About Literature” has been rewritten, with added drawings.

  • Helps students to write about literature on a serious level.

• NEW - Rearranged Chapters 3 through 7—Now arranged in the order of close reading, character, point of view, plot and structure, and setting.

  • Enables students to follow a natural progression in learning to analyze fiction and drama in order to write effectively.

• NEW - Added description of the extended comparison-contrast essay in Chapter 10.

  • Helps students by showing them how they might address this type of assignment.

• NEW - Revised Appendix D—“Works Used for Demonstrative Essays and References”; now includes Poe's The Masque of the Red Death, Hardy's The Man He Killed, Herbert's Easter Wings and Virtue, Randall's Ballad of Birmingham, Tennyson's The Eagle, Yeats's The Second Coming, and Whitman's Reconciliation.

  • Offers students new works to analyze, keeping the text timely and interesting.

• Pedagogical features—Introductory material, writing instructions, and demonstrative essays.

  • Allows students to gain extensive knowledge of practical literary approaches, allowing them to study any new work of literature with confidence.

• Essay assignments—Each chapter is organized as an essay assignment in a particular literary problem.

  • Provides students with writing practice throughout the text, by the guided writing-reading experience.

• “Writing Topics” sections—Conclude each chapter.

  • Elicits students' thinking about the special applications of each topic, deepening their understanding.

• Appendices—Contain stories, poems, and plays, all of which serve as the basis for references throughout the text.

  • Allows students to go directly to the appropriate appendix to learn how a particular work can be used as a writing topic.

• Chapter 1—“Preliminary: The Process of Reading, Responding to, and Writing About Literature” has been rewritten, with added drawings.

  • Helps students to write about literature on a serious level.

• Rearranged Chapters 3 through 7—Now arranged in the order of close reading, character, point of view, plot and structure, and setting.

  • Enables students to follow a natural progression in learning to analyze fiction and drama in order to write effectively.

• Added description of the extended comparison-contrast essay in Chapter 10.

  • Helps students by showing them how they might address this type of assignment.

• Revised Appendix D—“Works Used for Demonstrative Essays and References”; now includes Poe's The Masque of the Red Death, Hardy's The Man He Killed, Herbert's Easter Wings and Virtue, Randall's Ballad of Birmingham, Tennyson's The Eagle, Yeats's The Second Coming, and Whitman's Reconciliation.

  • Offers students new works to analyze, keeping the text timely and interesting.

 1. Preliminary: The Process of Reading, Responding to, and Writing About Literature.


 2. Writing About a Close-Reading: Analyzing Entire Short Poems or Selected Passages from Prose Fiction and Longer Poems.


 3. Writing About Character: The People in Literature.


 4. Writing About Point of View: The Position or Stance of the Work's Narrator or Speaker.


 5. Writing About Plot and Structure: The Development and Organization of Narratives and Drama.


 6. Writing About Setting: The Background of Place, Objects, and Culture in Literature.


 7. Writing About an Idea or a Theme: The Meanings and the Messages in Literature.


 8. Writing About Metaphors and Similes: A Source of Depth and Range in Literature.


 9. Writing About Symbolism and Allusions: Windows to a Wide Expanse of Meaning.


10. Writing Essays of Comparison-Contrast and Extended Comparison-Contrast: Learning by Seeing Literary Works Together.


Appendix A: Critical Approaches Important in the Study of Literature.


Appendix B: Writing Examinations on Literature.


Appendix C: The Use of References and Tenses in Writing About Literature.


Appendix D: A Brief Anthology of Works Used for Demonstrative Essays and References.

Writing About Literature  (Literature & Creative Writing)

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  Writing About Literature - Brief, 11/E
  Roberts
  ©2006 | Longman | Paper; 304 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131540564 | ISBN-13: 9780131540569
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  Appropriate for any college course or advanced placement course that emphasizes writing about literature.

  Message:  Writing about Literature serves as a hands-on guide for writing about literature, thus justifying the integration of literature and composition.  The reading of literature encourages students to think, and the use of literary topics gives instructors a viable way to combine writing and literary study.

  Story:  When Ed Roberts first wrote Writing about Literature many years ago, he was responding to a direct need in his classroom.  He realized that there was a direct connection between the way he made his assignments and the quality of student work he received.  The more he described to his students what he wanted, and the longer he explained things, the better the final essays turned out to be. That’s when he started to write and hand out directions, thus saving him valuable classroom time. He tried and tested each assignment in a number of separate classes, and he has made innumerable changes and improvements based on both student questions and student writing.  To this day, each new edition is revised and tweaked based on professors’ needs. 

   

"Clear and enjoyable."
Gary Zacharias, Palomar College

Students who write about what they read learn twice, for as they plan and develop their writing, they necessarily grow as thinkers.

This book provides comprehensive discussions and sample papers for students who are writing about the elements of literature. All chapters contain discussions of important literary subjects—such as character, setting, and symbolism—followed by a guide to the necessary steps for students to produce good essays. This accessible text is a perfect companion for any course that wants to focus on strengthening writing skills.

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