A Writer's Reference with Writing About Literature

For more than 25 years, this bestselling handbook has allowed students to build confidence and take ownership of their college writing experience. This version includes a section called Writing about Literature, a practical guide to interpreting works of literature and to planning, composing, and documenting papers about literature. Students will find help with forming and supporting an interpretation, avoiding plot summary, integrating quotations from a literary work, observing the conventions of literature papers, and using secondary sources. 

This is an ideal text for English Composition courses, foundation year modules, English degree programmes, and those studying English Literature.

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