A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature

By John Clifford and John Schilb

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1319215939
• ISBN13: 9781319215934
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Bedford Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.