Writing About Literature: English Composition
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Writing about literature can present many challenges to students. With those challenges in mind, Xiao Wang has written Writing About Literature: English Composition, which offers a wide range of tools that can guide students to success as readers, writers, and thinkers. Because of the importance of critical reading as part of the process of writing about literature, the text includes activities that can guide students when they first encounter a work of literature. Writing is a powerful tool for engaging in diverse ways of thinking—analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and application. These are skills that will serve students well not only in the academic arena of life but also in the professional, civic, and personal arenas. These skills enrich our learning as well as our lives more generally.
The text also offers approaches to examining the features of literature such as poetic devices, figures of speech, imagery, and structure. She engages students in diverse forms literature, including fiction, poetry, and drama. Further, the author has selected pieces of literature that are interesting and thought-provoking. They will generate lively conversations in class. Writing About Literature also includes helpful examples that show students how others have crafted the kinds of writing that teachers are asking them to produce.
About the Author
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter One Reading and Writing about Literature
Pre-Reading Activities
Reading about Literature
Intensive Reading or Re-Reading
Double-Entry Notebook
A Demonstrative Double-Entry Notebook on “The Necklace” by Julianne Wheeler
Pre-Writing and Invention Activities
Clustering and Mapping
Listing or Brainstorming
Freewriting
Writing about Literature and the Process
Write an Effective Introduction
Developing Paragraphs
Writing a Concluding Paragraph
Revising and Editing Activities for Writing about Literature
Global Revision
Local Revision
Peer Reviews
Revision Based on the Feedback from the Writing Tutors
Editing and Proofreading for Writing about Literature
Chapter Two Reading and Writing about Fiction
Elements of Fiction
People in Fiction
Organic Unity
Literary Devices
Reading and Analyzing Fiction
“Ripe Figs” and Questions for Discussion
“Story of an Hour” Sample Double-Entry Notes and Questions for Discussion
“Young Goodman Brown” Questions for Discussion
“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Sample Double-Entry, Sampe: Freewriting and Questions for Discussion
Writing about Fiction
Writing Assignment Description
Demonstrative Essays about Fiction
Invention Activities for Writing about Fiction
A Sample Thesis Statement
A Sample Outline
Writing Activities about Fiction
Revising and Editing an Essay about Fiction
Global Revision
Local Revision
Peer Reviews
Revision Based on the Feedback from the Writing Tutors
Editing and Proofreading for Writing about Fiction
Chapter Three Reading and Writing about Poetry
Poetic Devices
Figures of Speech
Types of Imagery
Reading and Analyzing Poetry
Poems for Reading and Discussion
Emily Dickinson’s Poems
“Papa Above” Questions for Discussion
“I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died” Demonstrative Double-Entry Notebook and Questions for Discussion
“I Am Nobody, Who Are You?” Questions for Discussion
“Success Is Counted Sweetest” Questions for Discussion
Robert Frost Poems
“The Road Not Taken” Double-Entry and Questions for Discussion
“Design” Questions for Discussion
“Out, Out,” Double-Entry by Julianne Wheeler, and Questions for Discussion
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Questions for Discussion
William Wordsworths “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” a Demonstrative Double-Entry Notebook, and Questions for Discussion
Billy Collins’s “Schoolsville,” a Demonstrative Double-Entry Notebook, and Questions for Discussion
“Sir Patrick Spens” and Questions for Discussion
Writing about Poetry
Writing Assignment Description
Demonstrative Essays on Poetry and Questions for Discussions
Invention Activities for Writing about Poetry
A Sample Thesis in Analyzing Poetry
Outlining for Essay on Poetry
A Sample Outline
Writing Activity for Writing about Poetry
Revising and Editing for Writing about Poetry
Global Revision
Local Revision
Peer Reviews
Revision Based on the Feedback from the In-Person and Online Writing Tutors
Editing and Proofreading for Writing about Poetry
Chapter Four Reading and Writing about Drama
The Structure of a Play
Literary Devices
Reading, Watching, and Analyzing Drama
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet Demonstrative Double-Entry Notebook and Questions for Discussion
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Demonstrative Double-Entry Notebook and Questions for Discussion
Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie Demonstrative Double-Entry Notebook and Questions for Discussion
Writing about Drama
Writing Assignment Description
Invention Activities for Writing about Drama
A Sample Thesis Statement about Drama
A Sample Outline
A Sample Essay
Revising and Editing Writing about Drama
Global Revision
Local Revision
Peer Reviews
Revision Based on the Feedback from the Writing Tutors
Editing and Proofreading for Writing about Drama
Works Cited
Dr. Xiao Aurora Wang holds a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric from Ball State University, IN, and an MA in ESL from St. Cloud State University. For the past twenty-three years, Dr. Wang has taught Composition courses at all levels such as Composition I, Composition II, Technical Writing, and ESL Composition at St. Cloud State, Ball State, Nova Southeastern University, Arizona State Universities, and Broward College, FL. She is the winner of the 2021 AFC Honorary Life Membership Award as well as Albert Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who in America in 2021.
Writing about literature can present many challenges to students. With those challenges in mind, Xiao Wang has written Writing About Literature: English Composition, which offers a wide range of tools that can guide students to success as readers, writers, and thinkers. Because of the importance of critical reading as part of the process of writing about literature, the text includes activities that can guide students when they first encounter a work of literature. Writing is a powerful tool for engaging in diverse ways of thinking—analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and application. These are skills that will serve students well not only in the academic arena of life but also in the professional, civic, and personal arenas. These skills enrich our learning as well as our lives more generally.
The text also offers approaches to examining the features of literature such as poetic devices, figures of speech, imagery, and structure. She engages students in diverse forms literature, including fiction, poetry, and drama. Further, the author has selected pieces of literature that are interesting and thought-provoking. They will generate lively conversations in class. Writing About Literature also includes helpful examples that show students how others have crafted the kinds of writing that teachers are asking them to produce.
About the Author
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter One Reading and Writing about Literature
Pre-Reading Activities
Reading about Literature
Intensive Reading or Re-Reading
Double-Entry Notebook
A Demonstrative Double-Entry Notebook on “The Necklace” by Julianne Wheeler
Pre-Writing and Invention Activities
Clustering and Mapping
Listing or Brainstorming
Freewriting
Writing about Literature and the Process
Write an Effective Introduction
Developing Paragraphs
Writing a Concluding Paragraph
Revising and Editing Activities for Writing about Literature
Global Revision
Local Revision
Peer Reviews
Revision Based on the Feedback from the Writing Tutors
Editing and Proofreading for Writing about Literature
Chapter Two Reading and Writing about Fiction
Elements of Fiction
People in Fiction
Organic Unity
Literary Devices
Reading and Analyzing Fiction
“Ripe Figs” and Questions for Discussion
“Story of an Hour” Sample Double-Entry Notes and Questions for Discussion
“Young Goodman Brown” Questions for Discussion
“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Sample Double-Entry, Sampe: Freewriting and Questions for Discussion
Writing about Fiction
Writing Assignment Description
Demonstrative Essays about Fiction
Invention Activities for Writing about Fiction
A Sample Thesis Statement
A Sample Outline
Writing Activities about Fiction
Revising and Editing an Essay about Fiction
Global Revision
Local Revision
Peer Reviews
Revision Based on the Feedback from the Writing Tutors
Editing and Proofreading for Writing about Fiction
Chapter Three Reading and Writing about Poetry
Poetic Devices
Figures of Speech
Types of Imagery
Reading and Analyzing Poetry
Poems for Reading and Discussion
Emily Dickinson’s Poems
“Papa Above” Questions for Discussion
“I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died” Demonstrative Double-Entry Notebook and Questions for Discussion
“I Am Nobody, Who Are You?” Questions for Discussion
“Success Is Counted Sweetest” Questions for Discussion
Robert Frost Poems
“The Road Not Taken” Double-Entry and Questions for Discussion
“Design” Questions for Discussion
“Out, Out,” Double-Entry by Julianne Wheeler, and Questions for Discussion
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Questions for Discussion
William Wordsworths “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” a Demonstrative Double-Entry Notebook, and Questions for Discussion
Billy Collins’s “Schoolsville,” a Demonstrative Double-Entry Notebook, and Questions for Discussion
“Sir Patrick Spens” and Questions for Discussion
Writing about Poetry
Writing Assignment Description
Demonstrative Essays on Poetry and Questions for Discussions
Invention Activities for Writing about Poetry
A Sample Thesis in Analyzing Poetry
Outlining for Essay on Poetry
A Sample Outline
Writing Activity for Writing about Poetry
Revising and Editing for Writing about Poetry
Global Revision
Local Revision
Peer Reviews
Revision Based on the Feedback from the In-Person and Online Writing Tutors
Editing and Proofreading for Writing about Poetry
Chapter Four Reading and Writing about Drama
The Structure of a Play
Literary Devices
Reading, Watching, and Analyzing Drama
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet Demonstrative Double-Entry Notebook and Questions for Discussion
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Demonstrative Double-Entry Notebook and Questions for Discussion
Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie Demonstrative Double-Entry Notebook and Questions for Discussion
Writing about Drama
Writing Assignment Description
Invention Activities for Writing about Drama
A Sample Thesis Statement about Drama
A Sample Outline
A Sample Essay
Revising and Editing Writing about Drama
Global Revision
Local Revision
Peer Reviews
Revision Based on the Feedback from the Writing Tutors
Editing and Proofreading for Writing about Drama
Works Cited
Dr. Xiao Aurora Wang holds a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric from Ball State University, IN, and an MA in ESL from St. Cloud State University. For the past twenty-three years, Dr. Wang has taught Composition courses at all levels such as Composition I, Composition II, Technical Writing, and ESL Composition at St. Cloud State, Ball State, Nova Southeastern University, Arizona State Universities, and Broward College, FL. She is the winner of the 2021 AFC Honorary Life Membership Award as well as Albert Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who in America in 2021.