Strategies for reading and arguing about literature

Morgan, Meg. (Author). Stallings, Kim. (Added Author). Townsend, Julie. (Added Author).

Summary: Strategies for Reading and Arguing About Literature teaches the art of academic agrumentation through a focus on classic and comteporary literature. This four-genre text focuss on argumentation and the writing process in depth by taking a twofold approach. The first approach encourages turning in to the text and creating arguments using the primary text alone while the second encourages turning out from the text and using various literary theories and secondary texts to create arguments.

Record details

ISBN: 013093853X
ISBN: 9780130938534
Physical Description: print
xiv, 657 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction to argument and arguing about literature. Text as argument-argument as text -- Argument structure and strategies -- Reading strategies. Reading to understand the text -- Exploring your response to a text -- Understanding a text in context -- Tools and techniques for argument. Contextualizing claims and evidence: turning in -- Contextualizing claims and evidence: turning out -- Writing strategies. The writing process: planning -- The writing process: drafting, revising, and editing -- Researching arguments about literature -- Turning in, turning out: five thematic casebooks. Casebook 1: Me, myself and I: exploring identity -- Casebook 2: Growing up and older: his and hers-rites of passage -- Casebook 3: The ties that bind: relating and relationships -- Casebook 4: Land of the free, home of the brave: defining America(ns) -- Casebook 5: (Hu)Man /nature: exploring the nature of humanity and the humanity of nature.