Minds Made for Stories How We Really Read and Write Informational and Persuasive Texts

Name: Minds Made for Stories How We Really Read and Write Informational and Persuasive Texts
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ISBN: 9780325046952

ISBN-10: 0325046956

ISBN-13: 9780325046952

Edition: 2014

Authors: Thomas Newkirk

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In this highly readable and provocative book, Thomas Newkirk explodes the long standing habit of opposing abstract argument with telling stories. Newkirk convincingly shows that effective argument is already a kind of narrative and is deeply "entwined with narrative." --Gerald Graff, former MLA President and author of Clueless in Academe Narrative is regularly considered a type of writing-often an "easy" one, appropriate for early grades but giving way to argument and analysis in later grades. This groundbreaking book challenges all that. It invites readers to imagine narrative as something more-as the primary way we understand our world and ourselves. "To deny the centrality of…

Book details

List price: $33.50
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 8/14/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English