<div> <div> <div>Prepared by editors whose scholarship fuses literary and composition studies,<i>Making Literature Matter</i>combines a comprehensive writing text with a uniquely organized anthology for introductory literature courses that emphasize critical and academic writing.<b>What makes literature matter?</b><b>Writing about it — argumentatively.</b>The writing text helps students learn to analyze literature and develop responsible and persuasive claims about it — making it matter to them as it hasn’t before.<b>Reading it — when it explores issues that matter.</b>The stories, poems, plays and essays in the anthology are uniquely organized into thematic clusters focusing on life issues that speak to students and evoke their engaged response.</div> </div> </div>