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082			_a820.711 T638 S _b102582
100			_aTory Young
245			_aStudying English literature : _b a practical guide/
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew Delhi _b Cambridge University Press _c2008
300			_a172
500			_aStudying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing so. Unlike books that provide a survey of literary history or non-subject specific manuals that offer rigid guidelines on how to write essays, Studying English Literature invites students to engage with the subject's history and theory whilst at the same time offering information about reading, researching and writing about literature within the context of a university. The book is practical yet not patronizing: for example, whilst the discussion of plagiarism provides clear guidelines on how not to commit this offence, it also considers the difficulties students experience finding their own 'voice' when writing and provokes reflection on the value of originality and the concepts of adaptation, appropriation and intertextuality in literature. Above all, the book prizes the idea of argument rather than insisting upon formulaic essay plans, and gives many ways of finding something to say as you read and when you write, in chapters on Reading, Argument, Essays, Sentences and References.
650			_aEnglish literature--Study and teaching (Higher)
650			_aReport writing--Study and teaching (Higher)
650			_aRhetoric--Study and teaching
650			_aStudy skills
942			_cBK