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Writing About American Literature
Karen Gocsik
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Description for Writing About American Literature
Paperback. A clear, concise guide to the process of writing about literature. Num Pages: 192 pages. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 188 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 160.
Writing About American Literature, the latest addition to Karen Gocsik’s popular "Writing About" series, is an accessible, step-by-step guide to writing about literature, from active reading to final revisions. The only writing guide created with American literature students in mind, this new text understands that active reading is the first step towards producing quality assignments and sections devoted to reading analytically and interrogating sources provide students with this essential foundation. Tips on reading critically and creatively, generating ideas, narrowing a topic, constructing a thesis, structuring an argument, and revising lead students through the entire arc of the writing process.
Writing About American Literature, the latest addition to Karen Gocsik’s popular "Writing About" series, is an accessible, step-by-step guide to writing about literature, from active reading to final revisions. The only writing guide created with American literature students in mind, this new text understands that active reading is the first step towards producing quality assignments and sections devoted to reading analytically and interrogating sources provide students with this essential foundation. Tips on reading critically and creatively, generating ideas, narrowing a topic, constructing a thesis, structuring an argument, and revising lead students through the entire arc of the writing process.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393937558
SKU
V9780393937558
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99-1
About Karen Gocsik
Karen Gocsik is director of the Warren College Writing Program at the University of California, San Diego, where she teaches first-year composition and a graduate-level training course for the program’s teaching assistants. Professor Gocsik previously taught first-year writing at Dartmouth College, where she was also Executive Director of the Writing & Rhetoric Program. In 2012, Professor Gocsik was nationally recognized ... Read more
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