Literature and the Writing Process - Softcover

Elizabeth McMahan; Susan Day; Robert Funk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 002379741X ISBN 13: 9780023797415

Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989

Synopsis

For Composition Through Literature and Introduction to Literature courses. Message: Literature and the Writing Process promotes interactive learning by integrating writing instruction with the study of literature. Its approach utilizes writing as a mode of learning, as a means for promoting critical thinking, as a method for exploring and developing insights and ideas about literary works. The process-oriented instruction shows students how to use writing as a way of studying literature and gives them the tools to analyze literature on their own.This book allows instructors to teach writing and literature together in a single course. The complementary processes of reading and writing work together to improve students' compositional skills and increase their comprehension of imaginative literature. Story: This textbook grew out of the authors' long-standing interest in integrating the study of literature with the practice of composition. Many of their students have learned to write perceptively and well using literature as their subject matter. Great literature is always thought-provoking, always new. Why not utilize it to sharpen critical thinking and improving writing skills? Toward that end, we have combined an introduction to literature anthology with detailed instruction in the writing process.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This unique text blends a complete writing instruction text, a literature anthology, and a handbook into one, combining instruction in the process of writing with an introduction to literary analysis. Designed to guide students through the allied processes of critical reading and critical writing, its process-oriented approach shows students how to use writing as a way of studying literature, and gives them the tools to analyze literature on their own.

From the Back Cover:

Key Benefit: This unique book blends a complete writing instruction text, a literature anthology, and a handbook into one, combining instruction in the process of writing with an introduction to literary analysis. Key Topics: Designed to guide readers through the allied processes of critical reading and critical writing, its process-oriented approach shows how to use writing as a way of studying literature. Provides clear and concise explanations of how to interpret literature, with emphasis on theme, form, and figurative language. Contains heuristics for interpreting each genre that show readers the kind of questioning that leads to discovering meaning in all literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 002379741X
• ISBN 13: 9780023797415
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1126