Digging into Literature

Learn the critical strategies you can use for reading, analyzing, and writing about literary texts as Digging into Literature teaches you that as complex as some literature is, writing effective essays about that literature isn't.

Joanna Wolfe (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisville, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing and rhetoric and composition. She is author of numerous scholarly articles on teamwork, gender studies, collaborative learning technology, and technical writing appearing in forums such as Journal of Engineering Education, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, and Written Communication. Her research on collaborative writing in technical communication classes won the 2006 NCTE award for best article reporting qualitative or quantitative research in technical and scientific communication.Laura Wilder (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin) is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University at Albany, SUNY, where she teaches courses in rhetoric, writing, film, literature, and composition theory. Her scholarly articles on rhetoric, literature, and the rhetoric of literary analysis have appeared in journals including Written Communication, Rhetoric Review, and Research in the Teaching of English. She is the author of Rhetorical Strategies and Genre Conventions in Literary Studies: Teaching and Writing in the Disciplines (2012)