Help Writing About
Literature
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LitWeb: Writing about LiteratureThis is a good place to enter LitWeb, a site designed to support the Norton Introduction to Literature. You can click on "Writing About Literature" (at the top) to get an overview of writing a paper about a piece of literature and then click on the links at the bottom to get very detailed information about each step in the process.
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Writing About Literature, Purdue University Online Writing LabThere are several helpful handouts at the site of this, the most famous "OWL" (online writing lab).
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Writing About LiteratureThe OWL at UNC-CH also offers some advice for getting started. A number of definitions of terms like plot are given.
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Writing About LiteratureThis page is part of Dr. Charles Darling 's large and useful site at Capital Community College. The Guide to Grammar and Writing is one of the best tutorial sites on the Web, in this teacher's humble opinion. Students in ENG 3321 (Grammars of English) recommend it highly.
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Writing About FictionAnother Purdue OWL page, this one provides help with prewriting activities and with drafting an essay.
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Using Modern Language Association (MLA) FormatYet another Purdue OWL page. Remember that an essay about a work of literature must always have a list of works cited, since you must at least cite the text you are working with.
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Formatting a Paper in MLA StyleThis page is designed to show you how to use Word to create an MLA-style page. There are links to information on creating a list of works cited.
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