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Dorsey Armstrong · 2011
A 24-lecture course guidebook teaching critical reading and analytical writing skills across major literary genres (fiction, essay, poetry, drama, autobiography) and classical rhetoric, with practical guidance on the writing process from research through rewriting.
Sequence ladder
Narrative Intelligence sources live outside the figurative image sequence ladder. Adaptive placement applies to image sequences, not this reading library.
What this book knows
Critical reading and analytical writing are learnable crafts built from rhetoric, genre awareness, and recursive revision.
education-and-formation
Students who hand in a paper that begins wobbly but ends with wonderfully original insight — this is called 'writing your way to an argument.'
ACHE-RC-077I finally succeeded in learning to read — I always took my book with me, finding time to get a lesson before my return.
ACHE-RC-056mind-and-cognition
Don't start at the start — in the very act of writing, you might discover something new and important to say about your topic.
ACHE-RC-064Kairos — depicted as a figure in precarious balance, grasping new opportunities without losing hold of what it already possesses.
ACHE-RC-062self-and-identity
TMI — too much information — is one of the most common and devastating mistakes in written self-presentation.
ACHE-RC-051Present your faults or failures as part of a larger process of self-development — indications of talents not fully realized.
ACHE-RC-054Illuminates
6 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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