Guide to literary analysis in college

This book is the result of a practice developed and tested by a team of literature teachers at the Cégep de Baie-Comeau over the last ten years, in their search for a working method that enables students to develop their autonomy and sense of personal effectiveness in literary analysis and writing.

The result is Guide de l'analyse littéraire au collégial, a book offering a step-by-step method to guide you from reading the work to writing your analysis, whether or not you have an essay to explain or criticize. You'll learn how to extract data yourself, organize your thoughts and better communicate your analysis in writing.

The Guide to Literary Analysis in College includes:

• Numerous examples of texts analyzed, essay plans, explanations, introductions and essays;
• Tips and tricks, such as the "3C trick", the explanation "recipe", the decision tree for the critical essay, etc..;
• A repertoire of general narrative, poetic and dramatic devices, including modern and contemporary ones;
• A complete chapter devoted to strategies for reading and annotating the text to facilitate comprehension and analysis of the work (including a section on reading a poem);
• Practical appendices on relationship markers and citation integration.