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| Preface for Instructors | |
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| Contents by Genre | |
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| Working with Literature | |
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| What Is Literature? How and Why Does It Matter? | |
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| "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" (poem) | |
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| How Have People Defined Literature? | |
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| Why Study Literature in a College Writing Course? | |
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| What Can You Do to Make Literature Matter to Others? | |
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| When I married, I became an old woman. . . . (story) | |
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| How to Read Closely | |
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| Strategies for Close Reading | |
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| Close Readings of a Poem | |
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| "Summer Solstice, New York City" (poem) | |
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| Using Topics of Literary Studies to Get Ideas | |
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| Night Waitress (poem) | |
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| How to Make Arguments about Literature | |
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| Orientation (story) | |
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| Girl (story) | |
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| Strategies for Making Arguments about Literature | |
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| Looking at Literature as Argument | |
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| "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent" (poem) | |
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| "The Unknown Citizen" (poem) | |
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| "Mending Wall" (poem) | |
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| The Writing Process | |
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| "The Solitary Reaper" (poem) | |
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| Strategies for Exploring | |
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| Strategies for Planning | |
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| Strategies for Composing | |
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| First Draft of a Student Paper | |
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| The Passage of Time in "The Solitary Reaper" | |
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| Strategies for Revising | |
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| Revised Draft of a Student Paper | |
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| The Passage of Time in "The Solitary Reaper" | |
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| Strategies for Writing a Comparative Paper | |
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| "Four Secretaries" (poem) | |
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| A Student Comparative Paper | |
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| When Singing Is Not Singing | |
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| A Writing Exercise | |
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| The Singing (poem) | |
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| How to Write about Stories | |
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| A Visit of Charity | |
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| The Use of Force | |
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| Sleepy | |
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| Students' Personal Responses to the Stories | |
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| The Elements of Short Fiction | |
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| Final Draft of a Student Paper | |
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| Forms of Blindness in "The Use of Force" | |
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| How to Write about Poems | |
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| In Creve Coeur, Missouri | |
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| We Did Not Fear the Father | |
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| What Work Is | |
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| Singapore | |
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| Blackberries | |
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| The Mill | |
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| So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs Away from Americans | |
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| The Lady in the Pink Mustang | |
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| The Secretary Chant | |
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| A Student's Personal Responses to the Poems | |
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| Boundaries in Robinson, Komunyakaa, and Oliver | |
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| The Elements of Poetry | |
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| Revised Draft of a Student Paper | |
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| Negotiating Boundaries | |
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| How to Write about Plays | |
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| From The Glass Menagerie (scene) | |
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| From 'night Mother (scene) | |
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| The Elements of Drama | |
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| Final Draft of a Student Paper | |
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| The Significance of What Jessie "Thinks" | |
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| How to Write about Essays | |
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| Many Rivers to Cross | |
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| In Search of Our Mother's Gardens | |
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| A Student's Personal Response | |
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| The Elements of Essays | |
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| Final Draft of a Student Paper | |
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| Resisting Women's Roles | |
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| How to Write a Research Paper | |
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| Strategies for Identifying an Issue and a Tentative Claim | |
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| Strategies for Finding and Using Secondary Sources | |
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| Strategies for Working with Sources | |
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| Strategies for Integrating Sources | |
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| Strategies for Documenting Sources (MLA Format) | |
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| Three Annotated Student Research Papers | |
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| The Meaning of the Husband's Fainting in "The Yellow Wall-Paper" | |
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| Substitution in Mitchell's "The Evolution of the Rest Treatment" and Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" | |
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| What the Argument between Tom Cruise and Brooke Shields Demonstrated about the Media | |
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| Literature and Its Issues | |
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| Families | |
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| Memories of Family: Essays | |
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| The Runaway Son | |
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| Demonology | |
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| Poets in the Kitchen | |
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| Happy Blue Crabs | |
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