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• ISBN: 0618039627
• ISBN: 9780618039623
• Physical Description: xviii, 1110 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., ©2001.

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General Note:

Includes indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. I.A conversation model of writing and reading. Why don't you let it out then? ; Making new texts from old : intertextuality ; Building a reading notebook : ten ideas for writing from reading ; Writing and reading for life and a lifetime -- pt. II. Writing essays about literature. Ways of planning : thinking and writing recursively ; Ways of drafting : building a barn in a tornado ; Ways of revising : caring and not caring ; Documenting research essays -- pt. III. Creating a writing portfolio. Making the works : twelve strategies for revising ; Assembling your final portfolio -- pt. IV. An introduction to the major genres. Short stories ; Poetry ; Essays ; Plays ; Notebooks and journals -- pt. V.A thematic anthology of readings. Gender and relationships ; Families ; Experience and identity ; Individual and society ; People and cultures in conflict and change ; Work and the quality of life.

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English language > Rhetoric > Problems, exercises, etc.
Literature > Appreciation > Problems, exercises, etc.
Criticism > Authorship > Problems, exercises, etc.
Report writing > Problems, exercises, etc.
College readers.
College readers.
Criticism > Authorship.
English language > Rhetoric.
Literature > Appreciation.
Report writing.

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Problems and exercises.