The St. Martin's Guide to Writing Short Edition with 2016 MLA Update

by Axelrod, Rise B.; Cooper, Charles R.

• ISBN13: 9781319087722
• ISBN10: 1319087728
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-07-01
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

The St. Martin's Guide to Writing Short Edition with 2016 MLA Update provides you with everything you need to succeed in a first-year composition class in a single volume. It's a combined reader, rhetoric, research manual, and handbook all in one.

Author Biography

Rise B. Axelrod is McSweeney Professor of Rhetoric and Teaching Excellence, Emeritus, at the University of California, Riverside, where she was also director of English Composition. She has previously been professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino; director of the College Expository Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder; and assistant director of the Third College (now Thurgood Marshall College) Composition Program at the University of California, San Diego. She is the co-author, with Charles R. Cooper, of the best-selling textbook The St. Martin's Guide to Writing as well as The Concise Guide to Writing and Reading Critically, Writing Well.

Charles R. Cooper is an emeritus professor at the University of California, San Diego. He served as coordinator of the Third College (now Thurgood Marshall College) Composition Program at the University of California, San Diego, and co-director of the San Diego Writing Project, one of the National Writing Project Centers. He advised the National Assessment of Educational Progress—Writing (1973-1981) and coordinated the development of California's first statewide writing assessment (1986-1991). He taught at the University of California, Riverside; the State University of New York at Buffalo; and the University of California, San Diego. He is co-editor, with Lee Odell, of Evaluating Writing and Research on Composing: Points of Departure, and he is co-author, with Rise Axelrod, of the best-selling textbook The St. Martin's Guide to Writing as well as The Concise Guide to Writing and Reading Critically, Writing Well.

Table of Contents

A revised Introduction to Building an Academic Argument. A newly revised Chapter 5 provides a bridge to help move students from personal and expository to argumentative writing by modeling how to review and critique a variety of positions in preparation for adopting and defending a position of their own. The Guide to Reading shows student Maya Gomez as she works through the stages of analyzing an academic conversation —from summary to an annotated bibliography to a report on an array of positions to an analysis of conflicting positions, all on the same issue. The Guide to Writing provides a host of activities to help students develop their own summary, annotated bibliography, report, or analysis. The argument chapters that follow show students how to apply what they’ve learned by analyzing a variety of claims before thoughtfully defending their own.

New support for reading and composing literacy narratives. A revised chapter 1 challenges students to reflect on their own writing practices by reading literacy narratives and composing one of their own.

An Invitation to Reimagine Writing across Genres. Each Part 1 chapter invites students to reimagine their writing in a new genre, moving, for example, from remembered event narrative to graphic memoir, from concept analysis to poster presentation, from position argument to Prezi, and more.

Six new student models and 13 compelling new professional readings. The Part One chapters provide a variety of selections by well-known authors and fresh voices, from David Sedaris and Sherry Turkle to Jon Ronson and Jenée Desmond-Harris, as well as new selections by students written while using The St. Martin’s Guide in their composition course.

Now with LaunchPad. LaunchPad, Macmillan's customizable online course space, includes an ebook version of the text and offers an array of new materials including additional student essays, adaptive quizzing, multimedia tutorials, and other resources that you can adapt, assign, and mix with your own.