TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gocsik,Karen M.
AU  - Hutchison,Coleman
TI  - Writing about American literature
SN  - 9780393937558
AV  - PE1479.G576.W758 2014 
PY  - 2014///.]
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton and Company
KW  - English language
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Academic writing
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Handbook
KW  - handbooks
KW  - aat
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - Handbooks and manuals
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Guides et manuels
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - 1; Writing about American literature -- --; Kinds of writing about American literature -- --; Generating ideas -- --; Researching American literature -- --; Developing your thesis -- --; Considering structure and organization -- --; Attending to style -- --; Revising your work -- --; Tools for writing about American literature
N2  - This clear and concise guide to writing in the American literature classroom provides advice that any student writer can use, but that students reading American literature will especially appreciate.  Tips for how to read analytically and creatively, generate ideas, narrow a topic, construct a thesis, structure an argument, and revise one's work lead students through the entire arc of the writing experience.  A section on types of writing focuses students' attention on the distinctions among the most common forms of writing in the American literature classroom (including the essay test), and a glossary of literary terms demystifies academic language so that students can use it meaningfully in their writing assignments--from back cover
ER  -