The Ingalls family is headed west to Kansas. Pa builds a new cabin for shelter, and Laura and her sister Mary set out to explore the rolling hills and hidden nooks of the vast land around them. Just when the pioneering family begins to feel settled, they find themselves caught in the middle of a dangerous struggle between the Osage Indians and the U.S. government.

Little House on the Prairie

Wilder, Laura

Harper

The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they move from their little house on the banks of Plum Creek to the wilderness of the unsettled Dakota Territory. Here Pa works on the new railroad until he finds a homestead claim that is perfect for their new little house. Laura takes her first train ride as she, her sisters, and their mother come out to live with Pa on the shores of Silver Lake. After a lonely winter in the surveyors' house, Pa puts up the first building in what will soon be a brand-new town on the beautiful shores of Silver Lake. The Ingallses' covered-wagon travels are finally over.

By the Shores of Silver Lake

Scholastic. Inc.

Laura Wilder fills a gap in the scholarship on writing in the disciplines and writing across the curriculum with this thorough study of the intersections between scholarly literary criticism and undergraduate writing in introductory literature courses. Rhetorical Strategies and Genre Conventions in Literary Studies is the first examination of rhetorical practice in the research and teaching of literary study and a detailed assessment of the ethics and efficacy of explicit instruction in the rhetorical strategies and genre conventions of the discipline. Using rhetorical analysis, ethnographic observation, and individual interviews, Wilder demonstrates how rhetorical conventions play a central, although largely tacit, role in the teaching of literature and the evaluation of student writing. Wilder follows a group of literature majors and details their experiences. Some students received experimental, explicit instruction in the special topoi, while others received more traditional, implicit instruction. Arguing explicit instruction in disciplinary conventions has the potential to help underprepared students, Wilder explores how this kind of instruction may be incorporated into literature courses without being overly reductive. Taking into consideration student perspectives, Wilder makes a bold case for expanding the focus of research in writing in the disciplines and writing across the curriculum in order to grasp the full complexity of disciplinary discourse.

Rhetorical Strategies and Genre Conventions in Literary Studies: Teaching and Writing in the Disciplines

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Southern Illinois University Press

In searching for her family's roots in Canandaigua, New York, Barbara Cowles became intrigued with her grandmother's life. She decided to compare this life with her mother's and then hers. By using the device of each woman writing letters to a friend, she was able to show how different the times were and yet that some things in life remain the same, no matter the year. All the facts in this book are true; in some cases where the particulars were not available, literary license was used.

Letters from an Attic

Literature & Fiction

Cowles, Barbara

Contemporary

Elim Pub

Digging Into Literature Documenting Sources in MLA Style 2016 Update With Access Code

Digging into Literature & Documenting Sources in MLA Style: 2016 Update

Wolfe, Joanna

Bedford/St.Martin's

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.

Digging into Literature

Literary

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