Literature and the Writing Process

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List of contents

PART ONE   Composing: An Overview
Chapter 1   The Prewriting Process
   Reading for Writing
   James Joyce, “Eveline”
   Who Are My Readers?
   Analyze the Audience
   Prewriting Exercise
   Why Am I Writing?
   Reasons for Writing
   Prewriting Exercise
   What Ideas Should I Use?
   Reading and Thinking Critically
   Discovering and Developing Ideas
   Self-Questioning
   Directed Freewriting
   Problem Solving
   Clustering
   Figure 1-1 Directed Freewriting
   Figure 1-2 Clustering
   What Point Should I Make?
   Relate a Part to the Whole
   How Do I Find the Theme?
   Stating the Thesis
 
Chapter 2   The Writing Process
   How Should I Organize My Ideas?
   Arguing Your Interpretation
   The Elements of Good Argument
   Building an Effective Argument
   Arranging the Ideas
   Chart 2-1  Checklist for Arguing an Interpretation
   Developing with Details
   Questions for Consideration
   Maintaining a Critical Focus
      Distinguishing Critical Comments from Plot Details
   How Should I Begin?
   Postpone If Nothing Comes
   Write an Appealing Opening
   State the Thesis
   How Should I End?
   Relate the Discussion to Theme
   Postpone or Write Ahead
   Write an Emphatic Final Sentence
   Composing the First Draft
   Pausing to Rescan
   Quoting from Your Sources
   Sample Student Paper: First Draft
 
Chapter 3   Writing a Convincing Argument
   Interpreting and Arguing
   Identifying Issues
   Making Claims
   Using Evidence
   Using Reasoning
   Answering Opposing Views
   Organizing Your Argument
   Using the Inductive Approach
   Making a Counterargument
   Arguing Through Comparison
   Sample Student Essay   
   Dagoberto Gilb, “Love in L. A.”
 
Chapter 4   The Rewriting Process
   What Is Revision?
   Getting Feedback: Peer Review
   Revising in Peer Groups
   Chart 4-1  Peer Evaluation Checklist for Revision
   What Should I Add or Take Out?
   Outlining After the First Draft
   Making the Outline
   Checking the Outline
   Sample After-Writing Outline
   Examining the Sample Outline
   Outlining Exercise
   What Should I Rearrange?
   Does It Flow?
   What Is Editing?
   What Sentences Should I Combine?
   Chart 4-2 Transitional Terms for All Occasions
   Chart 4-3  Revising Checklist
   Combining for Conciseness
   Sentence Combining Exercise
   Rearranging for Emphasis and Variety
   Varying the Pattern
   Exercise on Style
   Which Words Should I Change?
   Check Your Verbs
   Use Active Voice Most of the Time
   Use Passive If Appropriate
   Exercise on Passive Voice
   Feel the Words
   Exercise on Word Choice
   Attend to Tone
   Use Formal Language
   What Is Proofreading?
   Try Reading It Backward
   Look for Your Typical Errors
   Read the Paper Aloud
   Find a Friend to Help
   Chart 4-4  Proofreading Checklist
   Sample Student Paper: Final Draft
 
Chapter 5   Researched Writing
   Using Library Source in Your Writing
   Conducting Your Research
   Locating Sources
   Using the Online Catalog
   Using Indexes and Databases
   Using the Internet
   Chart 5-1  Internet Sources for Literature
   Evaluating Online Sources
   Using Reference Works in Print
   Working with Sources
   Taking Notes
   Using a Research Notebook
   Using the Printout/Photocopy Option
   Figure 5-1  Sample Entry from a Divided-Page Research Notebook
   Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting
   Devising a Working Outline
   Writing a First Draft
   Organizing Your Notes
   Using Quotations and Paraphrases
   Integrating Sources
   Block Quotations
   Quoting from Primary Sources
   Avoiding Plagiarism
   Rewriting and Editing
   Documenting Your Sources
   Revising the Draft
   Formatting Your Paper
   Chart 5-2   Checklist for Revising and Editing Researched Writing
   Sample Documented Student Paper
   Sample Published Article
   Explanation of the MLA Documentation Style
   In-Text Citations
   Preparing the List of Works Cited
   Sample Entries for a List of Works Cited
   Citing Print Publications
   Citing Online Publications
   Citing Other Common Sources
  
PART TWO Writing About Short Fiction
Chapter 6   How Do I Read Short Fiction?
   Notice the Structure
   Consider Point of View and Setting
   Study the Characters
   Foils
   Look for Specialized Literary Techniques
   Examine the Title
   Investigate the Author’s Life and Times
   Continue Questioning to Discover Theme
   Chart 6-1  Critical Questions for Reading the Short Story
 
Chapter 7   Writing About Structure
   What Is Structure?
   How Do I Discover Structure?
   Looking at Structure
   Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried”
   Prewriting
   Finding Patterns
   Writing
   Grouping Details
   Relating Details to Theme
   Ideas for Writing
   Ideas for Responsive Writing
   Ideas for Critical Writing
   Ideas for Researched Writing
   Rewriting
   Integrating Quotations Gracefully
   Exercise on Integrating Quotations
 
Chapter 8   Writing About Imagery and Symbolism
   What Are Images?
   What Are Symbols?
   Archetypal Symbols
   Phallic and Yonic Symbols
   How Will I Recognize Symbols?
   Reference Works on Symbols
   Looking at Images and Symbols
   Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
   Prewriting
   Interpreting Symbols
   Writing
   Producing a Workable Thesis
   Exercise on Thesis Statements
   Ideas for Writing
   Ideas for Responsive Writing
   Ideas for Critical Writing
   Ideas for Researched Writing
   Rewriting
   Sharpening the Introduction
   Sample Student Paper on Symbolism:  Second and Final Drafts
 
Chapter 9   Writing About Point of View
   What Is Point of View?
   Describing Point of View
   Looking at Point of View
   Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”
   Prewriting
   Analyzing Point of View
   Writing
   Relating Point of View to Theme
   Ideas for Writing
   Ideas for Responsive Writing
   Ideas for Critical Writing
   Ideas for Researched Writing
   Rewriting
   Sharpening the Conclusion
 
Chapter 10    Writing About Setting and Atmosphere
   What Are Setting and Atmosphere?
   Looking at Setting and Atmosphere
   Tobias Wolff, “Hunters in the Snow”
   Prewriting
   Examining the Elements of Setting
   Writing
   Discovering an Organization
   Ideas for Writing
   Ideas for Responsive Writing
   Ideas for Critical Writing
   Ideas for Researched Writing
   Rewriting
   Checking Your Organization
   Improving the Style: Balanced Sentences
   Sentence Modeling Exercise
 
Chapter 11    Writing About Theme
   What Is Theme?
   Looking at Theme
   Flannery O'Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
   Prewriting
   Figuring Out the Theme
   Stating the Theme
   Writing
   Choosing Supporting Details
   Ideas for Writing
   Ideas for Responsive Writing
   Ideas for Critical Writing
   Ideas for Researched Writing
   Rewriting
   Achieving Coherence
   Checking for Coherence
   Editing
   Repeat Words and Synonyms
   Try Parallel Structure
 
Casebook: Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
   Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
   The Story’s Origins
   Four Critical Interpretations
   Topics for Discussion and Writing
   Ideas for Researched Writing
 
Anthology of Short Fiction
   Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) “The Birthmark”
   Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)  “The Cask of Amontillado”
   Kate Chopin (1851-1904)  “Désirée’s Baby”
   “The Story of an Hour”
   Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)  “The Yellow Wallpaper”
   Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)  “Hands”
   Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)  “The Grave”
   Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)  “Spunk”
   William Faulkner (1897-1962)  “Barn Burning”
   Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)  “Hills Like White Elephants”
   Langston Hughes (1902-1967)  “Salvation”
   John Steinbeck (1902-1968)  “The Chrysanthemums”
   Richard Wright (1908-1960)  “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”
   Tillie Olsen (1913-2007)  “I Stand Here Ironing”
   Hisaye Yamamoto (1921- )  “Seventeen Syllables”
   Rosario Morales (1930- )  “The Day It Happened”
   Chinua Achebe (1930- )  “Dead Men’s Path”
   Alice Munro (1931- )  “An Ounce of Cure”
   Andre Dubus  (1956-1999)  “The Fat Girl”
   Raymond Carver (1938-1988)  “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”
   Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)  “The Lesson”
   Bharati Mukherjee (1940- )  “A Father”
   T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948- )  “The Love of My Life”
   Sandra Cisneros (1954- )   “Geraldo No Last Name”
   Louise Erdrich (1954- )   “The Red Convertible”
   Ha Jin (1956- )  “The Bridegroom”
   Katherine Min (1959- )  “Secondhand World”
   Julie Otsuka (1962- )   “Evacuation Order No. 19”
   Sherman Alexie (1966- )  “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”
 
A Portfolio of Science Fiction Stories
   Ray Bradbury (1920- )  “There Will Come Soft Rains”
   Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- )   “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
   Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006)  “Speech Sounds”
   Kevin Brockmeier (1972- )  “The Year of Silence”
   Sample Student Paper: Comparing Dystopias
 
A Portfolio of Humorous and Satirical Stories
   Eudora Welty (1909-2001)  “Why I Live at the P. O.”
   John Updike (1932-2009)  “A & P”
   Margaret Atwood (1939- )  “Happy Endings”
   Ron Hansen (1947- )  “My Kid’s Dog”   
   David Sedaris (1956- )  “Nuit of the Living Dead”
 
A Portfolio of Graphic Stories
   Art Spiegelman (1948- )  “Time Flies” from Maus II
   Alison Bechdel (1960- )   “Fun Home”
   Marjane Satrapi (1969- )   “The Vegetable” from Persepolis 2
  
PART THREE Writing About Poetry
Chapter 12    How Do I Read Poetry?
   Get the Literal Meaning First: Paraphrase
   Make Associations for Meaning
   Chart 12-1  Critical Questions for Reading Poetry
 
Chapter 13    Writing About Persona and Tone
   Who Is Speaking?
   What Is Tone?
   Recognizing Verbal Irony
   Describing Tone
   Looking at Persona and Tone
   Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”
   W. D. Ehrhart, “The Sins of the Father”
   Thomas Hardy, “The Ruined Maid”
   W. H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen”
   Edmund Waller, “Go, Lovely Rose”
   Dorothy Parker, “One Perfect Rose”
   Prewriting
   Asking Questions About the Speaker in “My Papa's Waltz”
   Devising a Thesis
   Considering the Speaker in “The Sins of the Father”
   Describing the Tone in “The Ruined Maid”
   Developing a Thesis
   Describing the Tone in “The Unknown Citizen”
   Formulating a Thesis
   Determining Tone in “Go, Lovely Rose”
   Discovering Tone in “One Perfect Rose”
   Writing
   Explicating and Analyzing
   Ideas for Writing
   Ideas for Responsive Writing
   Ideas for Critical Writing
   Ideas for Researched Writing
   Editing
   Quoting Poetry in Essays
   Sample Student Response on Persona and Tone
   Analyzing the Student Response
 
Chapter 14    Writing About Poetic Language
   What Do the Words Suggest?
   Connotation and Denotation
   Figures of Speech
   Metaphor and Simile
   Personification
   Imagery
   Symbol
   Paradox
   Oxymoron
   Looking at Poetic Language
   Mary Oliver, “August”
   Walt Whitman, “A Noiseless Patient Spider”
   William Shakespeare, “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”
   Kay Ryan, “Turtle”
      Hayden Carruth, “In the Long Hall”
   Donald Hall, “My Son My Executioner”
   Prewriting
   Examining Poetic Language
   Writing
   Comparing and Contrasting
   Ideas for Writing
   Ideas for Responsive Writing
   Ideas for Critical Writing
   Ideas for Researched Writing
   Rewriting
   Choosing Vivid, Descriptive Terms
   Finding Lively Words
   Exercise on Diction
   Sample Student Paper on Poetic Language: Second and Final Drafts
   Comparison Exercise
 
Chapter 15    Writing About Poetic Form
   What Are the Forms of Poetry?
   Rhythm and Rhyme
   Chart 15-1 Rhythm and Meter in Poetry
   Alliteration, Assonance, and Consonance
   Exercise on Poetic Form
   Stanzas: Closed and Open Form
   Poetic Syntax
   Visual Poetry
   Looking at the Forms of Poetry
   Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”
   A. E. Housman, “Eight O’Clock”
   E. E. Cummings, “anyone lived in a pretty how town”
   Wole Soyinka, “Telephone Conversation”
   Robert Frost, “The Silken Tent”
   Billy Collins, “Sonnet”
   Roger McGough, “40-----Love”
   Prewriting
   Experimenting with Poetic Forms
   Writing
   Relating Form to Meaning
   Ideas for Writing
   Ideas for Expressive Writing
   Ideas for Critical Writing
   Ideas for Researched Writing
   Rewriting
   Finding the Exact Wor
   Sample Student Paper on Poetic Form
   Sample Published Essay on Poetic Form:
   David Huddle, “The ‘Banked Fire’ of Robert Hayden’s ‘Those Winter Sundays’”
 
Casebook:  The Poetry of Langston Hughes
   Langston Hughes: A Brief Biography
   “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
   “Mother to Son”
   “The Weary Blues”
   “Saturday Night”
   “Trumpet Player”
   “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)”
   “Theme for English B”
   Considering the Poems
   Critical Commentaries
   Onwuchekwa Jemie, “Hughes and the Black Controversy”
   Margaret Larkin, “A Poet for the People”
   Richard Wright, “Forerunner and Ambassador”
   Karen Jackson Ford, “Do Right to Write Right: Langston Hughes’s Aesthetics of Simplicity”
   Peter Townsend, “Jazz and Langston Hughes’s Poetry”
   Langston Hughes, “Harlem Rent Parties”
   Ideas for Writing About Langston Hughes
   Ideas for Researched Writing
 
The Art of Poetry
   The Art of Poetry
   Lisel Mueller (1924- )  “American Literature”
Edward Hopper (1882-1967),  Nighthawks, 1942
  
Samuel Yellen (1906-1983)  “Nighthawks”
  
Susan Ludvigson (1942- )   “Inventing My Parents”
 
 
Peter Brueghel the Elder (c. 1525-1569), Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c. 1554-55
  
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)   “Musée des Beaux Arts”
 
 
   Paolo Uccello (139-1475), St. George and the Dragon, 1470
 
   U. A. Fanthorpe (1929-2009)   “Not My Best Side”
  
 
 
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), The Starry Night, 1889
 
   Anne Sexton (1928-1974)   “The Starry Night”
 
  
   Henri Matisse (1869-1954), The Red Studio, 1911
 
   W. D. Snodgrass (1926-2009)  “Matisse: ‘The Red Studio’ ”
 
 
Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806), Two Women Dressing Their Hair, 1794-1795
  
Cathy Song (1952- )  “Beauty and Sadness”
 
   The Art of Poetry: Questions for Discussion
   Poetry and Art: Ideas for Writing
   Sample Student Response: Poetry and Art
 
Anthology of Poetry
  Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)  “They Flee from Me”
   William Shakespeare (1564-1616)  “When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes”
   “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds”
   “That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold”
   “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun”
   John Donne (1572-1631)  “Death, Be Not Proud”
   “The Flea”
   “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
   Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)      “To His Coy Mistress”
   William Blake (1757-1827)  “The Lamb”
   “The Tyger”
   “The Sick Rose”
   “London”
   William Wordsworth (1770-1850)  “The World Is Too Much with Us”
   George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)  “She Walks in Beauty”
   Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)  “Ozymandias”
   John Keats (1795-1821)  “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
   Walt Whitman (1819-1892)  “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”
   Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)  “Dover Beach”
   Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)  “Faith Is a Fine Invention”
   “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?”
   “He Put the Belt Around My Life”
   “Much Madness Is Divinest Sense”
   “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
   “Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church”
   “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”
   Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)  “Pied Beauty”
   “Spring and Fall”
   A. E. Housman (1859-1936)  “To an Athlete Dying Young”
   “Loveliest of Trees”
   William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)  “The Second Coming”
   “Sailing to Byzantium”
   Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)  “We Wear the Mask”
   Robert Frost (1874-1963)  “Mending Wall”
   “Birches”
   “ ‘Out, Out—’”
   “Fire and Ice”
   “Design”
   Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)  “Fog”
   “Chicago”
   William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)  “Danse Russe”
   “The Red Wheelbarrow”
   D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)  “Piano”
   T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)  “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
   Claude McKay (1890-1948)  “America”
   Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)  “Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for That Word”
   “First Fig”
   E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)  “in Just- ”
   “pity this busy monster,manunkind”
   Stevie Smith (1902-1971)  “Not Waving but Drowning”
   Countee Cullen (1903-1946)  “Incident”
   Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)  “Sweetness, Always”
   W. H. Auden (1907-1973)  “Funeral Blues”
   “Lullaby”
   Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)  “I Knew a Woman”
   Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)  “One Art”
   May Sarton (1912-1995)  “AIDS”
   Karl Shapiro (1913-2000)  “Auto Wreck”
   Octavio Paz  (1914-1998)  “The Street”
   Dudley Randall (1914-2000)  “Ballad of Birmingham”
   “To the Mercy Killers”
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)  “The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower”
   “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
   Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- 2000)
   “Sadie and Maud”
   Richard Wilbur (1921- )   “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World”
   Philip Larkin   (1922-1985)  “Home Is So Sad”
   James Dickey (1923-1997)   “The Leap”
   Maxine Kumin (1925- )  “Woodchucks”
   Anne Sexton (1928-1974)   “You All Know the Story of the Other Woman”
   Adrienne Rich (1929-   )   “Aunt Jennifer's Tigers”
   “Living in Sin”
   Ruth Fainlight (1931- &...

Summary

For Introductory Literature and Composition courses.
 
Literature and the Writing Process combines the best elements of a literature anthology with those of a handbook to guide students through the interrelated process of analytical reading and critical writing.
 
The authors of Literature and the Writing Process hold to one simple premise: great literature–always thought-provoking, always new–offers a valuable path to teaching both writing and critical thinking skills.  By seamlessly integrating literature and composition into one multi-purpose text, this approach serves the dual process of enabling students both to enjoy, understand, and learn from imaginative literature; and to write clearly, intelligently, and correctly about what they have learned.   Text writing assignments use literature as a tool of critical thought, a method for analysis, and a way of communicating ideas.  This approach emphasizes writing as the focus of the book with literature as the means to write effectively. 

Product details

• Authors: Linda S. Coleman, Susan X. Day, Robert W. Funk, Elizabeth McMahan
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9780205902279
• ISBN: 978-0-205-90227-9
• No. of pages: 1168
• Series: Longman; Longman
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics