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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.