Introduction/Toby Fulwiler & William A. Stephany. The Way You're Supposed to Read -- Reading to Understand -- The Field of English Studies -- Part I : Reading as a writer. 1. Exploring with Journals / Toby Fulwiler. Academic Journals -- Personal Journals -- Writing about Reading -- Asking and Answering Questions -- Seeing -- Connecting and Extending -- Surprising Yourself -- Conversing -- Suggestions for Journal Writing -- 2. Exploring Fiction / Ghita Orth & Allen Shepherd. Once upon a time -- The Nature of Fiction -- Character -- Plot -- Point of View -- Setting -- Symbolism -- Style -- Theme -- Reading a Story: Tea Leaves (Janet Burroway) -- What Makes Good Fiction Good? -- Works Cited -- 3. Exploring Poetry / Sidney Poger. Coda (David Huddle) -- The Nature of Poetry -- The Techniques of Poetry -- Rhythm and Meter -- Rhyme -- Alliteration -- Imagery -- Comparison -- Diction -- Structure -- Point of View -- Responding to Poetry -- Works Cited -- 4. Exploring Drama / James Howe. Drama as Performance -- Reading Drama -- Writing About Drama -- Writing about Character -- Examples of Character Interpretation -- Writing About Language -- Dramatic Conventions -- Metadrama -- Television and Film -- 5. Exploring the Essay / Mary Jane Dickerson & Richard Sweterlitsch. The Essay as Conversation -- Conversations with the Self -- Conversations with Others -- Voices That Shape the Essay -- Voices of Meditation -- Voices of Response -- Voices of Dissent -- Voices of Explanation -- Voices of Storytelling -- Other Voices -- Finding Your Own Voice -- 6. Exploring Visual Texts / Tom Simone. Visual Texts -- Narrative Film as an Extension of Literature -- Beginning to Read a Visual Text -- George Lucas's Star Wars -- Mise en Scene -- The Single Shot -- Theme, Image, and Symbol -- Analyzing a Visual Text -- Suggested Further Readings.
Part II : Reading as exploration. 7. Why Study Literary Theory? / Lisa Schnell. The English Major as Anthropologist? -- Expanding Our Field of View -- The Pleasure of the Text -- The Moral Conversation -- Two Questions for Student Writing -- Brief Annotated Bibliography -- 8. Feminist Readings, Feminist Writing / Mary Louise Kete. The Short Answer -- The Long Answer -- Suggested Further Readings -- 9. Expanding the Canon: A Multicultural Perspective / Helen Scott. Eurocentrism and the Canon -- The "Culture Wars" -- Postcolonial Literature -- Towards a Global Culture -- Works Cited -- Recommended Reading -- 10. A Reader's Response / Nancy Welch. No Apology Necessary -- Reader Response: An Overview -- Reader Response in Action -- So Where Does It All End? -- Acknowledgment -- Works Cited -- 11. Reading Films as Acts of Reading / Andrew Barnaby. Reading as a Writer, Writing as a Reader -- Revisionary Reading and the Impulse to Film -- A River Runs Through It -- Listening and Seeing versus Reading -- Final Thoughts -- Questions to Ask When Comparing Films to Books -- Works Cited --Part III : Writing as a reader. 12. Writing Critical Essays / Sarah E. Turner. Being Critical: Describe the Text -- My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun (Emily Dickinson) -- Being Critical: Question the Text -- Being Critical: "So What?" -- Being Critical: Pulling It All Together -- Establishing a Critical Dialogue -- Suggestionsfor Writing Critical Essays -- Works Cited -- 13. Writing Personal Essays / Mary Jane Dickerson. Creating a New Text -- My Story -- Personal Essays -- Autobiography -- Autobiographical Questionnaire -- Conversation -- Exploration -- Engaging the Creative Process -- Open-Ended -- Works Cited.
14. Imaginative Writing and Risk Taking / William A. Stephany. "Rules"for Risk Taking -- Read Carefully -- Maintain a Consistent Voice -- Revise and Edit -- Creative Choices -- Imitation of Form: Close Parody --More General Parodies -- Imitation of Modern Literary or Cultural Forms -- Changing the Form -- Rewriting the Ending -- Creating Dialogues -- Some Final Examples -- The Experimental Tradition -- Works Cited -- That Time of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold (William Shakespeare) -- 15. Writing with Research / Richard Sweterlitsch. Getting Started -- Gathering Information First-Hand -- Seeking Second-Hand Sources -- Pulling the Paper Together -- Giving Credit -- Published Works Cited -- 16. A Web of One's Own / Katherine Anne Hoffman. Research -- Evaluating Internet Sources -- Writing and Composing -- Publishing -- 17. Examining the Essay Examination / Tony Magistrale. Writing Under Pressure -- Preliminary Steps and a Checklist of Practical Advice -- Types of Information Requests -- Planning -- Structuring Essay Answers -- The Take-Home Examination -- Using Class Notes and Journals -- Revising and Editing -- Beginning at the End: Ending at the Beginning.
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