A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature (Resources for Argumentation, Reading, Writing, and Research)

More and more, first- year writing courses foreground skills of critical analysis and argumentation. In response, A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature first hones students’ analytical skills through instruction in close critical reading of texts; then, it shows them how to turn their reading into well-supported and rhetorically effective argumentative writing. For instructors who prefer to aggregate their own anthology of readings and literary works for their literature-based composition courses, A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature comprises only the writing-guide chapters of John Schilb and John Clifford’s admired Arguing about Literature: Guide and Reader.  In response to reviewer suggestions, this new edition of A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature includes even more instruction in the key skills of argumentation, critical reading, and research than its predecessor. 

• Literature to Go
• Arguing About Literature: A Guide and Reader
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Third Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
• The Seagull Book of Literature (Fourth Edition)
• The Classic Fairy Tales (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
• Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
• The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
• American Short Story Masterpieces: A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers
• Parable of the Sower
• What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours