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American Literature & Rhetoric
                                                                                                                                                                                         Robin Dissin Aufses, Renée H. Shea,
                                                                                                                                                                                       Lawrence Scanlon, Katherine E. Cordes
         You told us & we listened






            Comprehensive, in-depth questions provide targeted                                                         Grammar instruction that meets students where they are.
            practice for key reading and writing skills.                                                               An appendix containing Grammar Workshops takes students from a basic understanding of a concept,
                                                                                                                       to identification of errors, to application of the concept in context, and ultimately back into real writing to revise.
            The in-depth questions and writing prompts that follow each reading enable students to link reading
            with writing, guiding students from understanding what a text is about to analysis of how the content
            is presented and why—the rhetorical strategies.                                                            End-of-chapter Grammar as
                                                                                                                       Rhetoric and Style sections
                                                                                                                       give concrete instruction on how
            Understanding and Interpreting                                                                             grammar contributes to rhetorical
            questions lay the foundation for                                                                           purpose or stylistic effect. Using
            analysis—these questions guide                                                                             examples from the readings
            students to an understanding                                                                               and culminating in scaffolded
            of the content and move them                                                                               exercises, this feature focuses on
            toward an interpretation.                                                                                  one issue per chapter—such as
                                                                                                                       coordination, parallel structures,
                                                                                                                       or use of pronouns—and
                                                                                                                       explores how what might seem
            Analyzing Language, Style,                                                                                 a mechanical point can, in fact,
            and Structure questions ask                                                                                be approached rhetorically.
            students to look at craft—how
            the writer’s choices create
            meaning.
                                                                                                                       End-of-chapter writing practice reinforces key skills.


                                                                                                                       Suggestions for Writing: Prompts for analysis,
                                                                                                                       argument, and beyond. Suggestions for Writing
                                                                                                                       at the end of each chapter guide students toward
            Topics for Composing                                                                                       written responses that connect multiple pieces
            questions provide extended                                                                                 within the chapter or extend to pieces beyond
            essay and project ideas. These                                                                             the chapter or even beyond the book. Expanding
            range from rhetorical analysis,                                                                            on the skills introduced in the opening chapters,
            literary analysis, and argument                                                                            these prompts give students the opportunity to
            prompts to research and                                                                                    practice writing in many modes, including but
            multimodal projects to creative                                                                            not limited to rhetorical analysis, argument,
            writing and speaking and listening                                                                         and synthesis.
            prompts for discussion.
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