Literature Research

A lighthearted primer on the fundamentals of American-language punctuation devotes a series of chapters to each of the major punctuation marks, providing easy-to-follow and accessible advice in a humorous format.

Looks at the history of punctuation and the rules governing the use of apostrophes, commas, dashes, hyphens, colons, and semicolons.

All the essential techniques for writing effective themes and essays, plus 36 sample themes with full analysis.

Mastering the ins and outs of writing involves more than just learning the rules of grammar. This text provides readers with principles to ensure their writing is readable, concise, convincing, and grammatically correct.

Annotation: Offers techniques for improving writing style, shows how to create a template that can be used for writing research papers on all subjects, and includes practical exercises.

Provides instruction on the correct manner to compose paragraphs and essays, both in college and the real world. Offers tips on punctuation, grammar, formatting, and word use and features example narratives students can study to improve their own writing skills.

A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well.

Shares the secrets of powerful writing and explains how to eliminate poor writing habits, enliven tired vocabulary, write effectively for a target audience, and express oneself with greater clarity, harmony, and specificity.

Offers extensive instruction in active and critical reading, practical advice on study and college survival skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, detailed coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and 61 readings that provide strong rhetorical models.

Provides critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the story's cultural and historical significance.

Analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels including biographical data, summary, character descriptions, themes, historical and cultural context, critical overview, critical excerpts, and an original critical essay.

A comprehensive and authoritative reference work concerning the "history, theory, technique and criticism of poetry from the earliest times to the present." Entries have included terms and concepts; genres and forms; periods, schools, and movements; the poetry of nations, regions, and languages; and poetry in relation to other cultural forms, disciplines, and social practices such as linguistics, religion, and science.

Critical essays examine representative plays and identify themes and characteristics employed by 198 dramatists, plus 50 more in the supplemental volume. Also includes extensive essays on various aspects of English language drama.

Essays on the whole of American literature from the 1600's to the present. Includes 250 essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, 50 essays on major literary works as well as essays on literary movements, periods, and themes.

Covers the movements, authors, genres, critics, awards, and many other aspects of American literature, and includes nearly two hundred new entries, many covering female and ethnic writers.

Covers 845 poets from around the world, and throughout history, from antiquity to the 21st century.