Writing About World Literature: A Guide for Students

by Karen Gocsik, Robert Kirschen

Overview

Writing about World Literature, a new guide created to accompany the Norton Anthology, covers the processes and particulars of writing in the world literature survey course. Starting with the essential question, “What is Academic Writing,” the guide takes students step-by-step through the writing process – from generating ideas to researching to revising. It includes an entire chapter on the different types of writing about world literature – including textual and contextual analyses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393918809
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	04/03/2012
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

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 by The Princeton Review as one of the “300 Best Professors in America.”