With a refreshed, integrated focus on the ways technologies shape writing, this reference tool uses accesible language to clarify technical writing today and real-world practices of succesful technical writers.

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...