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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Audience and the Literary Analysis Essay | |
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| The Importance of Audience | |
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| The Audience for the Literary Analysis Essay | |
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| Exercise Set 1.1 Understanding Audience | |
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| Analytical Paragraphs | |
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| Initial Analysis | |
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| Analytical Paragraphs and Their Three Components | |
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| Claims | |
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| Identifying Claims | |
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| Evidence | |
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| Presenting Evidence | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Common Problems in Analytical Paragraphs | |
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| Awkward repetition | |
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| Confusion about what makes meaning | |
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| Working with Analytical Paragraphs | |
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| A sample analytical paragraph | |
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| Understanding Analytical Paragraphs | |
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| Creating Analytical Paragraphs | |
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| Integrating Quotations from Literary Texts | |
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| Guidelines for integrating quotations | |
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| Integrating Quotations | |
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| Theme | |
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| Defining Theme | |
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| Debating Theme | |
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| Debating with the text: agreeing and disagreeing with themes | |
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| Debating about texts: agreeing and disagreeing about themes | |
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| Identifying Themes | |
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| Identifying themes in drama and prose fiction | |
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| Identifying themes in poetry | |
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| Identifying complex themes | |
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| Effective Statements of Theme | |
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| A checklist for effective statements of theme | |
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| Identifying Statements of Theme | |
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| Argument Structure | |
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| The Difference between a Logical Sequence and a List | |
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| Sample outlines | |
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| Understanding Argument Structure | |
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| Organizational Paragraphs and Titles | |
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| Introductory paragraphs | |
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| Working with introductory paragraphs | |
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| Understanding Introductory Paragraphs | |
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| Transitional paragraphs | |
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| Working with transitional paragraphs | |
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| Understanding Transitional Paragraphs | |
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| Concluding paragraphs | |
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| Working with concluding paragraphs | |
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| Understanding Concluding Paragraphs | |
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| Titles | |
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| Understanding Tides | |
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| Types of Literary Analysis Essays | |
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| Close Readings | |
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| Passage Analysis Essays | |
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| Introductions to passage analysis essays | |
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| The structure of passage analysis essays | |
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| Working with passage analysis essays | |
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| Understanding Passage Analysis Essay Structure | |
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| Comparative Literary Analysis Essays | |
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| The purpose of comparative literary analysis essays | |
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| Introductions to comparative literary analysis essays | |
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| The structure of comparative literary analysis essays | |
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| Working with comparative literary analysis essays | |
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| Understanding Comparative Literary Analysis Essays | |
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| Literary Analysis Research Essays | |
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| Literary analysis research essays using critical sources | |
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| Introductions to literary analysis research essays using critical sources | |
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| Working with critical sources | |
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| Understanding the Use of Critical Sources | |
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| Literary analysis research essays using historical sources | |
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| Working with historical sources | |
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| Understanding the Use of Historical Sources | |
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| In-Class Essays | |
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| MLA Format | |
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| The Appearance of the Essay | |
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| Documentation: Works Cited List | |
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| Works cited entries: print sources | |
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| Works cited entries: online sources | |
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| Works cited entries: other non-print sources | |
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| Documentation: In-Text Citations | |
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| Formatting Quotations | |
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| Short quotations | |
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| Long quotations | |
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| Changing quotations | |
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| Sample Essays | |
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| A Literary Analysis Essay on a Short Story | |
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| A Literary Analysis Essay on a Poem | |
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| A Literary Analysis Essay on a Play | |
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| A Literary Analysis Essay on a Novel | |
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| A Literary Analysis Essay on a Film | |
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| A Passage Analysis Essay | |
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| A Comparative Literary Analysis Essay | |
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| A Literary Analysis Research Essay Using Critical Sources | |
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| A Literary Analysis Research Essay Using Historical Sources | |
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| "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman | |
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| Selected Exercise Answers | |
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| Glossary of Literary Terms | |
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| Structure and Mechanics: Marking Abbreviations for Instructors and Peer Evaluators | |
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| Titles | |
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| Introductory Paragraphs | |
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| Thesis Statements | |
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| Analytical Paragraphs | |
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| Integrating Quotations | |
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| Index | |
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| Structure and Mechanics Checklist | |