English Writing

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-79246-138-5
Verlag: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback

This package contains two publications: - The Secret to Creating a Thesis for Any Assignment in 15 Minutes or Less, Preliminary Edition - If you are like many college students, you probably have several feelings arise when you think about writing. Invariably, many feel like writing is daunting, time consuming and just something you "have to get through." What you are about to learn within these pages will help to change your experience of writing, as you know it. Using this information and these quickly accessible techniques will help your writing process to be easier, less time consuming, and enjoyable.

- Quick Guide to Critical Literary Analysis, Preliminary Edition - Even if you are a seasoned English major, getting started with analyzing a poem, short story, play, or film can be challenging. How do you approach interpretation, analysis of symbols, characters or motivations, the social and historical contexts, or the form and content of the work? Mastering these skills can be difficult, but with the help of this quick guide to critical film and literary analysis, you will be able to extract important information from your text in minutes, so you can get started with your writing process. Whether you are just taking an introductory course in literature or you are an experienced English major, the tools inside this text will allow you to extract and interpret information quickly and effectively

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- The Secret to Creating a Thesis for Any Assignment in 15 Minutes or Less, First Edition
- Foreword
- Clarity
- The Three Most Important Considerations When Writing
- Brainstorming Techniques
- Freewriting
- Looping
- Webbing or Clustering
- Questioning
- Listing
- Outlining
- Narrowing Your Subject
- Type of Assignment
- Size of Assignment
- Creating a Thesis
- The Secret Process for Text-Based Writing Assignments
- Research Papers
- Revising Your Thesis
- Example Essays
- The Need for Sustainability
- Industrial Hemp: Our Most Sustainable Resource
- Readings
- The Republic: Book VII, by Plato
- Self-Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- How It Feels to Be Colored Me, by Zora Neale Hurston
- Politics and The English Language, by George Orwell
- Quick Guide to Critical Literary Analysis, First Edition
- Foreword
- Introduction to Critical Analysis
- What is it?
- The Different Strategies/Lenses
- Historical Approaches
- Biographical Approaches
- Formalist Approaches
- Psychological Approaches
- Feminist Approaches
- Marxist Approaches
- Mythological Approaches
- Existentialist Approaches
- Queer Approaches
- Deconstructionist Approaches
- Reader/Viewer-Response Approaches
- Concluding Remarks
- Quick Reference to Quick Guide Questions
- How to Use These Tools to Analyze Literature
- Analysis of The Black Cat
- Example Papers
- Walls and Pluto's Underworld in The Black Cat
- Destroying The Feminine in The Black Cat
- Readings
- The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe
- The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
- Alone by Edgar Allen Poe
- The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov
- The Horse Dealer's Daughter
- Trifles by Susan Glaspell
- The Doctor in Spite of Himself by Moliere