The Complete Idiot's Guide to Critical Reading

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Critical Reading
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 403
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ISBN-10 : 9781440696428
ISBN-13 : 144069642X
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Book Synopsis The Complete Idiot's Guide to Critical Reading by : Amy Wall

Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Critical Reading written by Amy Wall and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential guide to looking at literature with your own two eyes. What students know about Shakespeare, Orwell, Dickens, and Twain is primarily what their instructors tell them. Here’s a book that teaches the students how to move on to the next level—evaluate and read critically on their own, trust their own opinions, develop original ideas, analyze characters, and find a deeper appreciation for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more. • Ideal companion for college students and accessible for the casual reader as well. • Covers fiction, poetry, narrative nonfiction, biographies and memoirs, essays and editorials, and newspapers, magazines, and journals. • Features examples from published writing. • Includes a reading list and a glossary of literary terms.

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