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Literature and the Writing Process

ISBN: 9780139132117 | 0139132112
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 8/1/1998

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Table of Contents
Thematic Contentsxxi
Prefacexxvii
Part I Composing: An Overview1(50)
The Prewriting Process
3(14)
... MORE
Reading for Writing
3(4)
``Eveline''
4(3)
James Joyce
Who Are My Readers?
7(1)
Analyze the Audience
7(1)
Prewriting Exercise
7(1)
Why Am I Writing?
8(1)
Reasons for Writing
8(1)
Prewriting Exercise
8(1)
What Ideas Should I Use?
9(4)
What Is Critical Thinking?
9(1)
Self-Questioning
9(1)
Directed Freewriting
10(1)
Problem-Solving
11(1)
Clustering
11(1)
Directed Freewriting
12(1)
What Point Should I Make?
13(4)
Relate a Part to the Whole
13(1)
How Do I Find the Theme?
13(1)
Clustering
14(1)
Stating the Thesis
15(2)
The Writing Process
17(14)
How Should I Organize My Ideas?
17(1)
The Basic Approach: Devising a Plan
17(3)
Ordering the Ideas
18(1)
Maintaining a Critical Focus
19(1)
Distinguishing Critical Comments from Plot Details
19(1)
Developing with Details
20(1)
Questions for Consideration
20(1)
How Should I Begin?
20(2)
Postpone if Nothing Comes
21(1)
Write an Appealing Opening
21(1)
State the Thesis
21(1)
How Should I End?
22(1)
Relate the Discussion to Theme
22(1)
Postpone or Write Ahead
22(1)
Write an Emphatic Final Sentence
22(1)
Composing the First Draft
23(1)
Pausing to Rescan
23(1)
Citing Your Sources
23(1)
Enlisting Help from Peers
24(2)
Peer Evaluation Checklist for Revision
25(1)
Sample Student Paper: First Draft
26(1)
Suggestions for Writing
26(4)
Ideas for Writing
30(1)
Ideas for Responsive Writing
30(1)
Ideas for Critical Writing
30(1)
The Rewriting Process
31(20)
What Is Revision?
31(1)
What Should I Add or Take Out?
32(3)
Outlining After the First Draft
32(1)
Making the Outline
32(1)
Checking the Outline
33(1)
Sample After-Writing Outline
33(1)
Examining the Sample Outline
34(1)
Outlining Exercise
34(1)
What Should I Rearrange?
35(1)
Which Sentences Should I Combine?
36(2)
Combining for Conciseness
37(1)
Sentence Combining Exercise
37(1)
Rearranging for Emphasis and Variety
38(1)
Varying the Pattern
38(1)
Exercise on Style
39(1)
Which Words Should I Change?
39(4)
Check Your Verbs
39(1)
Exercise on Word Choice
40(1)
Use Active Voice Most of the Time
40(1)
Use Passive Voice if Appropriate
41(1)
Exercise on Passive Voice
41(1)
Feel the Words
41(1)
Attend to Tone
42(1)
Use Formal Language
42(1)
Does It Flow?
43(1)
Transitional Terms for All Occasions
44(1)
What Is Editing?
44(2)
Proofreading: Try Doing It Backward
44(1)
Look for Your Typical Errors
44(1)
Revising Checklist
45(1)
Proofreading Checklist
46(1)
Read the Paper Aloud
46(1)
Find a Friend to Help
46(1)
Sample Student Paper: Final Draft
46(5)
Part II Writing About Short Fiction51(89)
How Do I Read Short Fiction?
53(6)
Notice the Structure
53(1)
Subplots
54(1)
Consider Point of View and Setting
54(1)
Study the Characters
55(1)
Foils
56(1)
Look for Specialized Literary Techniques
56(1)
Examine the Title
57(1)
Continue Questioning to Discover Theme
57(2)
Critical Questions for Reading the Short Story
58(1)
Writing About Structure
59(12)
What Is Structure?
59(1)
How Do I Discover Structure?
60(1)
Looking at Structure
60(7)
``Everyday Use''
61(6)
Alice Walker
Prewriting
67(1)
Finding Patterns
67(1)
Writing
67(1)
Grouping Details
67(1)
Relating Details to Theme
68(1)
Ideas for Writing
68(1)
Ideas for Responsive Writing
68(1)
Ideas for Critical Writing
68(1)
Rewriting
69(2)
Integrating Quotations Gracefully
69(1)
Exercise on Integrating Quotations
69(2)
Writing About Imagery and Symbolism
71(23)
What Are Images?
71(1)
What Are Symbols?
72(1)
Archetypal Symbols
72(1)
Phallic and Yonic Symbols
72(1)
How Will I Recognize Symbols?
73(1)
Reference Works on Symbols
73(1)
Looking at Images and Symbols
73(7)
``The Lottery''
74(6)
Shirley Jackson
Prewriting
80(1)
Interpreting Symbols
80(1)
Writing
80(1)
Producing a Workable Thesis
81(1)
Exercise on Thesis Statements
81(1)
Ideas for Writing
81(1)
Ideas for Responsive Writing
81(1)
Ideas for Critical Writing
82(1)
Rewriting
82(1)
Sharpening the Introduction
82(1)
Sample Student Paper
83(11)
Writing About Point of View
94(13)
What Is Point of View?
94(2)
Describing Point of View
95(1)
Shifting and Unreliable Narrators
95(1)
Looking at Point of View
96(8)
``Haircut''
97(7)
Ring Lardner
Prewriting
104(1)
Identifying Point of View
104(1)
Writing
104(1)
Relating Point of View to Theme
104(1)
Ideas for Writing
104(1)
Ideas for Responsive Writing
104(1)
Ideas for Critical Writing
104(1)
Rewriting
105(2)
Sharpening the Conclusion
105(2)
Writing About Setting and Atmosphere
107(9)
What Are Setting and Atmosphere?
107(1)
Looking at Setting and Atmosphere
107(4)
``The Storm''
108(3)
Kate Chopin
Prewriting
111(1)
Prewriting Exercise
111(1)
Writing
112(1)
Discovering an Organization
112(1)
Ideas for Writing
112(1)
Ideas for Responsive Writing
112(1)
Ideas for Critical Writing
113(1)
Rewriting: Organization and Style
113(3)
Checking Your Organization
113(1)
Improving the Style: Balanced Sentences
113(1)
Sentence Modeling Exercise
114(2)
Writing About Theme
116(24)
What Is Theme?
116(1)
Looking at Theme
117(14)
``Good Country People''
118(13)
Flannery O'Connor
Prewriting
131(1)
Figuring Out the Theme
131(1)
Stating the Theme
131(1)
Writing
132(1)
Choosing Supporting Details
132(1)
Ideas for Writing
132(1)
Ideas for Responsive Writing
132(1)
Ideas for Critical Writing
133(1)
Rewriting
133(1)
Achieving Coherence
133(1)
Checking for Coherence
133(1)
Editing: Improving Connections
134(1)
Repeat Words and Synonyms
134(1)
Try Parallel Structure
135(1)
Sample Student Paper
135(5)
Anthology of Short Fiction140(331)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Young Goodman Brown
140(9)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The Cask of Amontillado
149(5)
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Story of the Bad Little Boy
154(2)
Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
The Storm (in Chapter 8)
The Awakening
156(86)
The Story of an Hour
242(2)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
The Revolt of ``Mother''
244(11)
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
Roman Fever
255(9)
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Paul's Case
264(13)
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
Hands
277(4)
Susan Glaspell (1882-1948)
A Jury of Her Peers
281(14)
James Joyce (1882-1941)
Eveline (in Chapter 1)
Araby
295(4)
Ring Lardner (1885-1933)
Haircut (in Chapter 7)
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
The Rocking-Horse Winner
299(10)
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
309(6)
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
A Rose for Emily
315(6)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Hills Like White Elephants
321(4)
Zora Neale Hurston (1901-1960)
The Gilded Six-Bits
325(8)
Arna Bontemps (1902-1973)
A Summer Tragedy
333(6)
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
The Chrysanthemums
339(7)
Frank O'Connor (1903-1966)
My Oedipus Complex
346(8)
Richard Wright (1908-1960)
The Man Who Was Almost a Man
354(9)
Eudora Welty (1909- )
A Worn Path
363(6)
John Cheever (1912-1982)
The Swimmer
369(8)
Tillie Olsen (1913- )
I Stand Here Ironing
377(6)
Shirley Jackson (1919-1965)
The Lottery (in Chapter 6)
Hisaye Yamamoto (1921- )
Seventeen Syllables
383(9)
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
Good Country People (in Chapter 9)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
392(11)
Chinua Achebe (1930- )
Dead Men's Path
403(3)
Alice Munro (1931- )
Royal Beatings
406(15)
John Updike (1932- )
A & P
421(5)
Claire Kemp (1936- )
Keeping Company
426(4)
Bessie Head (1937-1986)
Life
430(7)
Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
437(8)
Joyce Carol Oates (1938- )
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
445(12)
Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)
The Lesson
457(5)
Alice Walker (1944- )
Everyday Use (in Chapter 5)
Sandra Cisneros (1954- )
The House on Mango Street
462(1)
Louise Erdrich (1954- )
The Red Convertible
463(8)
Part III Writing About Poetry471(57)
How Do I Read Poetry?
473(4)
Get the Literal Meaning First: Paraphrase
473(1)
Make Associations for Meaning
474(3)
Critical Questions for Reading Poetry
476(1)
Writing About Personal and Tone
477(17)
Who Is Speaking?
477(1)
What Is Tone?
478(1)
Recognizing Verbal Irony
478(1)
Describing Tone
478(1)
Looking at Persona and Tone
479(3)
``My Papa's Waltz''
479(1)
Theodore Roethke
``The Ruined Maid''
479(1)
Thomas Hardy
``The Unknown Citizen''
480(1)
W. H. Auden
``Go, Lovely Rose''
481(1)
Edmund Waller
``One Perfect Rose''
482(1)
Dorothy Parker
Prewriting
482(4)
Asking Questions About the Speaker in ``My Papa's Waltz''
482(1)
Devising a Thesis
483(1)
Describing the Tone in ``The Ruined Maid''
484(1)
Discovering a Thesis
484(1)
Describing the Tone in ``The Unknown Citizen''
485(1)
Discovering a Thesis
485(1)
Discovering Tone in ``Go, Lovely Rose''
486(1)
Discovering Tone in ``One Perfect Rose''
486(1)
Writing
486(1)
Explicating and Analyzing
486(1)
Ideas for Writing
487(1)
Ideas for Responsive Writing
487(1)
Ideas for Critical Writing
487(1)
Editing
488(1)
Punctuating Poetry in Essays
488(1)
Sample Student Paper
489(5)
Analyzing the Student Essay
493(1)
Writing About Poetic Language
494(16)
What Do the Words Suggest?
494(3)
Connotation and Denotation
494(1)
Figures of Speech
494(1)
Metaphor and Simile
495(1)
Personification
496(1)
Imagery
496(1)
Symbol
496(1)
Paradox
497(1)
Oxymoron
497(1)
Looking at Poetic Language
497(2)
``A Noiseless Patient Spider''
497(1)
Walt Whitman
``Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?''
498(1)
William Shakespeare
``Heat''
498(1)
H. D. [Hilda Doolittle]
``In the Long Hall''
498(1)
Hayden Carruth
``My Son My Executioner''
499(1)
Donald Hall
Prewriting
499(1)
Examining Poetic Language
500(1)
Writing
500(1)
Comparing and Contrasting
500(1)
Ideas for Writing
500(1)
Ideas for Responsive Writing
500(1)
Ideas for Critical Writing
501(1)
Rewriting: Style
501(1)
Choosing Vivid, Descriptive Terms
501(1)
Finding Lively Words
502(1)
Exercise on Diction
502(1)
Sample Student Paper
502(8)
Comparison Exercise
502(8)
Writing About Poetic Form
510(18)
What Are the Forms of Poetry?
510(4)
Rhythm and Rhyme
510(1)
Rhythm and Meter in Poetry
511(1)
Alliteration, Assonance, and Consonance
512(1)
Exercise on Poetic Form
512(1)
Stanzas: Closed and Open Forms
512(2)
Poetic Syntax
514(1)
Looking at the Forms of Poetry
514(4)
``We Real Cool''
514(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
``Eight O'Clock''
515(1)
A. E. Housman
``anyone lived in a pretty how town''
515(1)
E. E. Cummings
``Telephone Conversation''
516(1)
Wole Soyinka
``Twilight's Last Gleaming''
517(1)
Arthur W. Monks
``Nuns Fret Not''
517(1)
William Wordsworth
Prewriting
518(2)
Experimenting with Poetic Forms
518(2)
Writing
520(1)
Relating Form to Meaning
520(1)
Ideas for Writing
521(2)
Ideas for Expressive Writing
521(2)
Ideas for Critical Writing
523(1)
Rewriting: Style
523(2)
Finding the Exact Word
523(2)
Sample Published Essay on Poetic Form
525(3)
``The `Banked Fire' of Robert Hayden's `Those Winter Sundays'''
526(2)
David Huddle
Anthology of Poetry528(107)
Sappho (ca. 612-ca. 580 B.C.)
With His Venom
528(1)
Anonymous
Western Wind
528(1)
Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
They Flee from Me
529(1)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
529(1)
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618)
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
530(1)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (in Chapter 12)
When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes
531(1)
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
531(1)
That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold
532(1)
My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun
532(1)
John Donne (1572-1631)
The Flea
532(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
533(1)
Death, Be Not Proud
534(1)
Batter My Heart
535(1)
George Herbert (1593-1633)
Easter Wings
535(1)
The Pulley
536(1)
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
Go, Lovely Rose (in Chapter 11)
Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars
536(1)
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
To His Coy Mistress
537(1)
William Blake (1757-1827)
The Lamb
538(1)
The Tyger
538(1)
The Sick Rose
539(1)
London
539(1)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Nuns Fret Not (in Chapter 13)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
540(1)
The World Is Too Much with Us
540(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Kubla Khan
541(1)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
She Walks in Beauty
542(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Ozymandias
543(1)
Ode to the West Wind
543(3)
John Keats (1795-1821)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
546(1)
Ode on a Grecian Urn
546(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Ulysses
547(2)
The Eagle
549(1)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
My Last Duchess
549(2)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
A Noiseless Patient Spider (in Chapter 12)
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
551(1)
One's-Self I Sing
551(1)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Dover Beach
552(1)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
553(1)
There's a certain Slant of light
553(1)
He put the Belt around my life
554(1)
Much Madness is divinest Sense
554(1)
Because I could not stop for Death
554(1)
I heard a Fly buzz-when I died
555(1)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
The Ruined Maid (in Chapter 11)
The Darkling Thrush
556(1)
Channel Firing
557(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
The Windhover
558(1)
Pied Beauty
558(1)
Spring and Fall
559(1)
A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
Eight O'Clock (in Chapter 13)
To an Athlete Dying Young
559(1)
Loveliest of Trees
560(1)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
The Second Coming
560(1)
Sailing to Byzantium
561(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Richard Cory
562(1)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
A Man Said to the Universe
563(1)
War Is Kind
563(1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
We Wear the Mask
564(1)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Mending Wall
564(1)
Birches
565(2)
Fire and Ice
567(1)
The Road Not Taken
567(1)
Design
568(1)
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
Patterns
568(2)
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Fog
570(1)
Grass
571(1)
Chicago
571(1)
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
572(1)
Anecdote of the Jar
572(1)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Danse Russe
573(1)
The Red Wheelbarrow
573(1)
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Piano
574(1)
Snake
574(2)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
In a Station of the Metro
576(1)
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
576(1)
H. D. [Hilda Doolittle] (1886-1961)
Heat (in Chapter 12)
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
577(4)
Claude McKay (1890-1948)
America
581(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
581(1)
Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for That Word!
581(1)
First Fig
582(1)
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
One Perfect Rose (in Chapter 11)
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Dulce et Decorum Est
582(1)
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
anyone lived in a pretty how town (in Chapter 13)
in Just-
583(1)
next to of course god america i
584(1)
she being Brand
584(1)
pity this busy monster, manunkind
585(1)
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
Reapers
586(1)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Daybreak in Alabama
586(1)
Mother to Son
587(1)
Harlem (A Dream Deferred)
587(1)
Theme for English B
588(1)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
589(1)
Stevie Smith (1902-1971)
Not Waving but Drowning
589(1)
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Incident
590(1)
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
The United Fruit Co.
590(2)
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
The Unknown Citizen (in Chapter 11)
Musee des Beaux Arts
592(1)
Stop All the Clocks
593(1)
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
My Papa's Waltz (in Chapter 11)
Dolor
593(1)
I Knew a Woman
594(1)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
One Art
594(1)
May Sarton (1912-1995)
AIDS
595(1)
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
Those Winter Sundays
596(1)
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
596(1)
Dudley Randall (1914- )
To the Mercy Killers
597(1)
William Stafford (1914-1993)
Traveling Through the Dark
597(1)
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
598(1)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
598(1)
Fern Hill
599(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- )
We Real Cool (in Chapter 13)
Sadie and Maud
600(1)
The Bean Eaters
601(1)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919- )
Constantly Risking Absurdity
601(1)
Howard Nemerov (1920-1991)
The Goose Fish
602(1)
Hayden Carruth (1921- )
In the Long Hall (in Chapter 12)
Richard Wilbur (1921- )
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
603(1)
Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
Home Is So Sad
604(1)
James Dickery (1923-1997)
The Leap
605(1)
Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
O Taste and See
606(1)
Lisel Mueller (1924- )
Things
606(1)
``O Brave New World, That Hath Such People in It''
607(1)
Maxine Kumin (1925- )
Woodchucks
607(1)
W. D. Snodgrass (1926- )
April Inventory
608(2)
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
A Supermarket in California
610(1)
James Wright (1927-1980)
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
610(1)
Donald Hall (1928- )
My Son My Executioner (in Chapter 12)
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
You All Know the Story of the Other Woman
611(1)
Cinderella
611(3)
Adrienne Rich (1929- )
Living in Sin
614(1)
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
615(1)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Mirror
615(1)
Metaphors
615(1)
Daddy
616(2)
John Updike (1932- )
Ex-Basketball Player
618(1)
Linda Pastan (1932- )
Ethics
619(1)
Imamu Amiri Baraka [LeRoi Jones] (1934- )
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
619(1)
Biography
620(1)
Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
Hanging Fire
621(1)
Wole Soyinka (1934- )
Telephone Conversation (in Chapter 13)
Marge Piercy (1936- )
Barbie Doll
622(1)
The Woman in the Ordinary
622(1)
Blanche Farley (1937- )
The Lover Not Taken
623(1)
Seamus Heaney (1939- )
Digging
624(1)
John Lennon (1940-1980) and Paul McCartney (1942- )
Eleanor Rigby
625(1)
Sharon Olds (1942- )
The Death of Marilyn Monroe
626(1)
Sex Without Love
626(1)
Paul Simon (1942- )
Richard Cory
627(1)
Nikki Giovanni (1943- )
Dreams
628(1)
Louise Gluck (1943- )
Life Is a Nice Place
628(1)
Gina Valdes (1943- )
My Mother Sews Blouses
629(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- )
Facing It
629(1)
Rita Dove (1952- )
Daystar
630(1)
Jimmy Santiago Baca (1952- )
There Are Black
631(1)
Louise Erdrich (1954- )
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
632(1)
Gabriel Spera (1966- )
My Ex-Husband
633(2)
Part IV Writing About Drama635(187)
How Do I Read a Play?
637(4)
Listen to the Lines
637(1)
Visualize the Scene
638(1)
Envision the Action
639(2)
Critical Questions for Reading Plays
640(1)
Writing About Dramatic Structure
641(50)
What Is Dramatic Structure?
641(1)
Looking at Dramatic Structure
642(38)
Sophocles, Antigone
644(36)
Prewriting
680(1)
Analyzing Dramatic Structure
680(1)
Writing
680(2)
Discovering a Workable Argumentative Thesis
681(1)
Quoting from a Play
682(1)
Ideas for Writing
682(1)
Ideas for Responsive Writing
682(1)
Ideas for Critical Writing
683(1)
Rewriting
683(1)
Avoiding Unclear Language
683(1)
Sample Student Paper
684(7)
Questions for Discussion
690(1)
Writing About Character
691(48)
What Is the Modern Hero?
691(1)
The Classical Tragic Hero
691(1)
The Modern Tragic Hero
692(1)
Looking at the Modern Hero
692(43)
The Glass Menagerie
693(42)
Tennessee Williams
Prewriting
735(1)
Analyzing the Characters
735(1)
Writing
735(1)
Choosing a Structure
736(1)
Ideas for Writing
736(1)
Ideas for Responsive Writing
736(1)
Ideas for Critical Writing
737(1)
Rewriting
737(2)
Developing Paragraphs Specifically
737(1)
Exercise on Providing Quotations
738(1)
Drama for Writing: The Research Paper
739(83)
What Is Cultural Analysis?
739(1)
Looking at Cultural Issues
740(46)
M. Butterfly
741(45)
David Henry Hwang
Using Library Sources in Your Writing
786(1)
A Student Researcher's Process
786(1)
Prewriting
787(4)
Reading Notes
787(1)
Finding a Thesis
788(1)
Locating Sources
788(1)
The Online Catalog
789(1)
Indexes and Databases
789(1)
Using the Internet
789(1)
Guides to Criticism of Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
790(1)
Reference Works in Print
791(1)
Taking Notes
791(1)
Writing
791(4)
Developing a Plan
792(1)
Writing Before Researching
792(1)
Avoiding Plagiarism
793(1)
Introducing Quotations
794(1)
Ideas for Researched Writing
795(2)
About Short Stories
795(1)
About Poetry
796(1)
About Drama
796(1)
Rewriting
797(1)
Citing Sources
797(1)
Including Informational Notes
797(1)
Editing
797(1)
Checklist for Accurate Documentation
798(1)
Sample Documented Papers by Students
798(16)
Paper on Drama
798(11)
Paper on a Short Story
809(5)
Explanation of the MLA Documentation Style
814(8)
Sample Entries for a Works Cited List
816(4)
Citing Works in Electronic Form
820(1)
Citing Sources from the Internet
821(1)
Anthology of Drama822(277)
Sophocles (ca. 496-ca. 405 B.C.)
Antigone (in Chapter 15)
Oedipus the King
822(43)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The Tempest
865(65)
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
A Doll's House
930(51)
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
The Proposal
981(10)
Susan Glaspell (1882-1948)
Trifles
991(10)
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
The Glass Menagerie (in Chapter 16)
Alice Childress (1920-1994)
Florence
1001(10)
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)
A Raisin in the Sun
1011(56)
Woody Allen (1935- )
Death Knocks
1067(6)
Luis Valdez (1940- )
Los Vendidos
1073(8)
Harvey Fierstein (1954- )
On Tidy Endings
1081(18)
David Henry Hwang (1957- )
M. Butterfly (in Chapter 17)
Part V The Editing Process1099(2)
A Handbook for Correcting Errors1101(35)
Proofreading
1101(1)
Correcting Sentence Boundary Errors
1101(7)
Examples of Phrases and Clauses
1102(1)
Phrases and Clauses
1102(1)
Fragments
1102(1)
Kinds of Phrases
1103(1)
Kinds of Clauses
1104(2)
Comma Splices
1106(1)
Exercise on Comma Splices
1107(1)
Run-On Sentences
1108(1)
Clearing Up Confused Sentences
1108(1)
Solving Faulty Predication Problems
1108(2)
Exercise on Faulty Predication
1108(2)
Fixing Subject-Verb Agreement Errors
1110(2)
Fixing Pronoun Errors
1112(4)
Exercise on Pronoun Errors
1116(1)
Correcting Shifts in Person
1116(1)
Exercise on Shifts in Person
1117(1)
Correcting Shifts in Tense
1117(1)
Exercise on Shifts in Tense
1118(1)
Finding Modifier Mistakes
1118(2)
Exercise on Modifier Mistakes
1119(1)
Coping with Irregular Verbs
1120(1)
Exercise on Irregular Verbs
1121(1)
Setting Verbs Right
1121(1)
Writing in Active Voice
1121(1)
Exercise on Using Active Voice
1122(1)
Solving Punctuation Problems
1122(2)
Using Necessary Commas Only
1124(2)
Using Apostrophes
1126(1)
Integrating Quotations Gracefully
1127(1)
Quoting from a Story: Crediting Sources
1128(1)
Quoting from a Poem
1129(1)
Quoting from a Play
1129(1)
Punctuating Quoted Material
1130(3)
Writing Smooth Transitions
1133(1)
Catching Careless Mistakes
1134(2)
Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms1136(10)
Biographical Notes1146(22)
Credits1168(7)
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems1175(8)
Subject Index1183

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