Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing, 2009 MLA Update Edition - Softcover

Kirszner, Laurie G.; Mandell, Stephen R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495904554 ISBN 13: 9780495904557

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

This compact edition retains all the features that have made the full edition so successful within a smaller, affordable volume. Combining the broadest selection of readings with time-proven and class-tested instruction, *2009 MLA Update Edition - COMPACT Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing*,Seventh Edition, remains the most useful and student-friendly introduction to literature text available. The text includes a comprehensive guide to writing about literature, with full coverage of critical thinking, argument, and the writing process. Teachers themselves, authors Kirszner and Mandell take students through each step of the research and writing process, helping them to craft literary analyses and arguments and to understand that writing about literature is a process of discovery, examination, and debate. This edition has been updated to reflect guidelines from the *2009 MLA HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS OF RESEARCH PAPERS*, Seventh Edition.

About this title

About the Author:

Laurie G. Kirszner is a best-selling author who is well known nationally. Kirszner, together with coauthor Stephen R. Mandell, has written best sellers for nearly every English market. They have the deepest publishing record of any literature anthology author team and have successfully published up and down the curriculum from developmental to literature.

Stephen R. Mandell is a best-selling author who is well known nationally. Mandell, together with coauthor Laurie G. Kirszner, has written best sellers for nearly every English market. They have the deepest publishing record of any literature anthology author team and have successfully published up and down the curriculum from developmental to literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0495904554
• ISBN 13: 9780495904557
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1824