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Ргеnticе-Наll, 1984. — 258 р. Like native English-speaking Americans, the many thousands of foreign students in degree programs in the United States are still required, even in this age of emphasis on technology, to study literature. They also share with native English speakers the need to develop and polish their writing skills to a' level of competency acceptable in college work. The purpose of Outsiders is to help address this twofold obligation to nonnative English users in our colleges and universities by offering the following. Short stories carefully chosen for their quality, diversity, and appeal, so that they can provide a sound, structural basis for studying fiction as a literary genre in a college credit course. A glimpse of American lifestyles, cultural variations, and social issues as portrayed in fictional settings by first-class American writers. The unifying motif of "the outsider in the U.S.A.," a theme that recent arrivals can understand and appreciate and then recognize as broader in scope than they had at first supposed. An objective ("scientific") approach to literature, using the skills of observation and inference to develop reading techniques appropriate fo

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Author

Mullen Jean S.

Publisher

Prentice Hall, Inc

Published

1984

Language

EN

ISBN

9780136453666

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Fiction