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...

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Beginning college writers come from a wide range of backgrounds. For many, academic reading and writing skills are ones they must learn and practice. Enter Rules for Writers. Comprehensive and easy to use, this book provides students with all of the support they need--accessible explanations of writing and grammar topics, step-by-step advice for writing and doing research, class-tested examples and models, and opportunities to practice and build th...