Karen Gocsik is director of the Warren College Writing Program at the University of California, San Diego, where she teaches first-year composition and a graduate-level training course for the program's teaching assistants. Professor Gocsik previously taught first-year writing at Dartmouth College, where she was also Executive Director of the Writing & Rhetoric Program. In 2012, Professor Gocsik was nationally recognized by The Princeton Review as one of the "300 Best Professors in America."

A GUIDE FOR STUDENT WRITERS, BY A SEASONED TEACHER OF WRITING

A respected teacher and scholar of writing, Karen Gocsik is the director of the Analytical Writing Program at University of California, San Diego. Her expertise provides students with thorough and time-tested advice about how to generate ideas, narrow a topic, construct a thesis, structure an argument and revise one's work.

A SUCCINCT, EASY-TO-REFERENCE GUIDE TO FORM, THEORY AND ANALYSIS

Co-author Dave Monahan is an award-winning filmmaker, teacher and author of the leading introductory film text, Looking at Movies. He introduces students to the principles of film form (narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, sound, etc.) the basics of film theory and the essential techniques of viewing films intelligently and perceptively.

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Writing About Movies is priced affordably and costs much less than similar guides. It's also available at a discount when packaged with the leading introduction to film text, Looking at Movies. No other book offers students more, or more helpful, information and guidance for so little cost.