Arguing about Literature: A Brief Guide & Documenting Sources in MLA Style: 2016 Update

PACKAGE THIS TITLE WITH OUR 2016 MLA SUPPLEMENT, Documenting Sources in MLA Style (package ISBN-13: 9781319084646). Get the most recent updates on MLA citation in a convenient, 40-page resource based on The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition, with plenty of models. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN. Arguing about Literature: A Brief Guide hones students’ analytical skills though instruction in close critical reading of texts, showing them how to turn their reading into well-supported and rhetorically effective argumentative and researched writing. Arguing about Literature will help you learn these skills. It features many real-world arguments (about free speech, for example, and about social media) with instruction on how to analyze those arguments and develop your own arguments in response. Above all it immerses you in great literature, including fiction by Flannery O'Connor and Jamaica Kincaid, poetry by Langston Hughes and Louise Erdrich, drama by William Shakespeare and Lynn Nottage, and essays by Henry David Thoreau and Richard Rodriguez. This is literature worth arguing about, and Arguing about Literature shows you how to do so. It will change how you read, think, and write about literature -- and about everything else worth arguing about