A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature / Edition 2

by John Schilb, John Clifford

Overview

Coherently discuss (argue) the meaning of literature, why certain books exist, and whether or not any of it maatters by honing your abilities to read carefully, analyze texts and evaluate sources with A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781319035303
Publisher:	Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date:	12/23/2016
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

John Schilb (PhD, State University of New York—Binghamton) is a professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he holds the Culbertson Chair in Writing. He has coedited Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age, and with John Clifford, Writing Theory and Critical Theory. He is author of Between the Lines: Relating Composition Theory and Literary Theory and Rhetorical Refusals: Defying Audiences’ Expectations.
 
John Clifford (PhD, New York University) is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Editor of The Experience of Reading: Louis Rosenblatt and Reader-Response Theory, he has published numerous scholarly articles on pedagogy, critical theory, and composition theory, most recently in College English; Relations, Locations, Positions: Composition Theory for Writing Teachers; and in The Norton Book of Composition Studies.

Table of Contents

More instruction on understanding and composing arguments. Chapter 1 now features diagrams and flowcharts to clarify the elements of rhetoric and argument, illuminating how they work in sample arguments. A new chapter 2 offers advice on writing effective arguments, including a discussion of how to get beyond the five-paragraph essay template students learn in high school.

More strategies for critical reading, and opportunities to practice it. Chapter 4 now features a unique section on how to get ideas for writing by tracing characters’ emotions, and includes an additional poem and story on which students can apply what they have learned.

Expanded and updated research and documentation coverage, with more opportunities for research and inquiry. Chapter 7’s treatment of research includes more information about using sources and avoiding plagiarism, as well as documentation coverage that reflects new 2016 MLA guidelines.

New literature and arguments for analysis. Of the thirty examples of literature and argument, 3 stories, 1 poem, and 5 arguments are new to the book.

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