Introduction
The Course Text for Writing About Literature English 130 at Queens College is provided to you at no cost and was created and shared freely by First Year Writing instructors at CUNY Queens College and academic writing instructors outside of our college. They are tools to help you compose academic arguments and participate in the many conversations that exist in our intellectual communities at QC and beyond.
The text consists of the following.
- Academic Writing Strategies and Practices, which are short documents that are packed with important information that will help you develop as an academic writer.
- Literary Analysis Strategies and Practices, which will assist you with developing your analysis of literary texts that we closely read.
- Readings on Writing, which will help you to think about what writing is “doing” and with how and why to apply academic reading and writing strategies and practices.
- Literary Texts, including poetry, fiction, and drama, which we will closely read and analyze.
- Research and Engaging Sources, which will assist you with conducting credible research and citing sources ethically.
