Studying English literature a Practical guide 1st Edition by Tory Young ISBN 9781107486638 1107486637

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ISBN 10: 1107486637
ISBN 13: 9781107486638
Author: Tory Young
 

Studying English literature a Practical guide 1st Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 What this book is about

1.2 Some practicalities: how to use this book

1.3 Reading and writing in your life

1.4 A very brief history of writing and reading

1.5 What do novels know?

1.6 Literacy in contemporary society

1.7 Stories, narrative and identity

Works cited

Chapter 2 Reading

2.1 Writing as reading?

2.2 A love of literature

2.3 The discipline of English

2.4 The new English student

2.5 Plagiarism: too complete a loss of self

2.6 How to read: ways of avoiding plagiarism

2.7 What to read

2.8 Some recommended websites

Works cited

Chapter 3 Argument

3.1 Having something to Say

3.2 Rethinking dialogue: Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895–1975)

3.3 Stories, arguments and democracy

3.4 The folded paper: how to stand at a distance and start a dialogue with a text

3.5 What is rhetoric?

3.6 A very brief survey of Classical rhetoric

3.7 Wayne Booth (1921–2005) and The Rhetoric of Fiction

3.8 More ways of discovering arguments

Works cited

Chapter 4 Essays

4.1 What are essays for?

4.2 What is an essay?

4.3 How do you think you write an essay?

4.4 The stages of writing an essay

4.5 Thinking of or about the question

4.6 Research

4.7 Making a plan

4.8 The thesis statement

4.9 Writing the main body of the essay

4.10 Beginnings and endings

4.11 Editing

4.12 Finally, a frequently asked question: ‘Is it OK to use “I”?’

Works cited

Chapter 5 Sentences

5.1 The most common errors made in student assignments

5.2 Errors involving clauses

5.3 Errors involving commas

5.4 Errors involving apostrophes

5.5 Errors involving pronouns

5.6 Errors involving verbs

5.7 Errors involving words

Works cited

Chapter 6 References

6.1 The MLA system

6.2 Citations in the MLA style

6.3 Quotations

6.4 Bibliographies and Works Cited in the MLA style

Works cited

Appendix. Sample essay by Alex Hobbs

Index

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