Writing About World Literature: A Guide for Students - Softcover

Gocsik, Karen; Kirschen, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393918807 ISBN 13: 9780393918809

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012

Synopsis

Writing about World Literature, a new guide created to accompany the Norton Anthology, covers the processes and particulars of writing in the world literature survey course. Starting with the essential question, “What is Academic Writing,” the guide takes students step-by-step through the writing process – from generating ideas to researching to revising. It includes an entire chapter on the different types of writing about world literature – including textual and contextual analyses.

About this title

About the Author:

Karen Gocsik is director of the Warren College Writing Program at the University of California, San Diego, where she teaches first-year composition and a graduate-level training course for the program’s teaching assistants. Professor Gocsik previously taught first-year writing at Dartmouth College, where she was also Executive Director of the Writing & Rhetoric Program. In 2012, Professor Gocsik was nationally recognized by The Princeton Review as one of the “300 Best Professors in America.”

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0393918807
• ISBN 13: 9780393918809
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144