Analysis and Critique: How to Engage and Write about Anything
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Dorsey Armstrong
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Tap into the power of effective writing by developing the fundamental critical and analytical skills that transform your writing from "good" to "great." Regardless of your subject, goal, or occasion, these skills will help you organize your thoughts into a coherent piece, make a persuasive argument rooted in facts, and make responsible use of research materials.
You'll find the secrets of these and other methods in 24 accessible lectures that immerse you in the elements of successful writing. With engaging literary and everyday examples, inspirational prompts, and unforgettable insights, this course is the perfect reference guide for both professional and casual writers.
Survey the ways five major literary genres-fiction, essay, poetry, drama, and autobiography-can show you the path to stronger persuasive and critical writing. Writing prompts and practice examples will help you better understand how to apply the insights you'll uncover by studying each genre. See how the art of rhetoric can help you adapt your writing to different situations. The increased awareness of classical rhetoric you gain will go a long way toward making you a stronger writer by calling your attention to the basics of compelling analytical writing.. Take a step-by-step look at the four major stages of the writing process-researching, writing a first draft, editing, and rewriting.
Chock full of useful strategies and real-world examples, this course is an invaluable tool for developing your effective writing skills so you can better express yourself to others.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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- Richard James
- 20-08-20
Excellent
Thoroughly recommended. Information like this is why audible is so good. Dorsey Armstrong is great lecturer.
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- Alan Fitzgerald
- 16-04-15
Easy to follow
An well put together tutorial, encouraging the listener to understand the importance of analysing the writing of others along with tips on improving ones own skills.
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- Uma Obasi
- 20-05-22
Loved it.
This material is filled with great advice.
I enjoyed this audiobook. Best experience when an author does the audio version by himself or herself!
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- Edgard
- 30-09-15
Nice Book
I enjoyed listening. Uniquely provides keys to read and understand literature from various angles and perspective.
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- DK
- 22-04-21
I just loved it! Great course
I found this book absolutely fascinating. Sorry for my prosaic review, but I am on my way to improving my writing skills and I find it very promising after listening to this lecture. This course made me feel even more excited about writing and got me interested in reading some classics that I haven’t had the chance to read before. This course covers all the challenges I was having with my writing. Moreover, I enjoyed listening to Dorsey Armstrong. She is definitely an inspiring teacher who I wish I had when I was at school. This book is worth every penny and time spent on it. I very much recommend it if you would like to learn about how to read critically and how to write efficiently. It goes the extra mile as it also provides help with strategies to overcome the procrastination relating to writing blockage. English is not my first language, so I enjoyed greatly the grammar lesson as I feel irritated by those mistakes I see in native English speakers’ writing. Thank you for this beautiful piece of work.
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- Jkwright
- 13-09-20
it's alright
The lectures are a series of boring interactions with the texts, where listeners are to ID skills and duplicate them. if you're a heavy reader anyway, this isn't for you.
listeners are asked to model works based on very different authors, to acquire these various skills, and are expected to pull this together into something that uses all the skills discussed without any real insight of how this is to be achieved, whilst maintaining your own voice.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-09-20
Cringeworthy
Most of the discussions in here are very general, almost just common sense. The analyses are fairly superficial. Ok as a course for high school students, perhaps, but hardly the level you’d expect to find in a series entitled “Great Courses”. Examples given concerning Pride & Prejudice etc are cringeworthy - showing rather superficial, even misconstrued understanding of the novel and Jane Austen’s intentions! Very disappointed - perhaps due to the overpromise of the book title. If the book was called “ introduction to good writing practices” I would have rated it more kindly. I know I might sound harsh but I hope authors and Audible series Curators for these “Great” courses deliver on the quality that they promise and the customers expect - right now I feel like I fell for a click-bait equivalent of a book!
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- Margaret Bent
- 27-08-20
I gave up at chapter five
the first five chapters focus on example authors who are long since dead and writing is so dated it is like another language. Maybe the book gets better but I feel sure there are more up to date and relevant books out there.
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