The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing

The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing by University Rise B Axelrod

THIS TITLE HAS BEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE 2016 MLA UPDATES Our editorial team has updated this text based on content from The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN.

The new>Concise St. Martin's Guide provides streamlined coverage of the six most commonly assigned genres in first-year composition--remembering events, writing profiles, explaining concepts, arguing a position, proposing a solution, and justifying an evaluation. The>Concise Guide>leads students through the writing process: Guides to Reading equip students to analyze a genre's basic features, and Axelrod and Cooper's distinctive Guides to Writing help students apply their analysis of reading to the development of their own writing projects. With more hands-on activities for critical reading and working with sources, greater emphasis on the rhetorical situation, and a fresh new design to show students the strategies they need at a glance, the>Concise Guide helps students accomplish their writing goals from start to finish. Our newest set of online materials, LaunchPad Solo, provides all the key tools and course-specific content that you need to teach your class. Get all our great course-specific materials in one fully customizable space online; then assign and mix our resources with yours. To package LaunchPad Solo free with>The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing, use ISBN 978-1-319-00686-0.

THIS TITLE HAS BEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE 2016 MLA UPDATES Our editorial team has updated this text based on content from The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN.

The new>Concise St. Martin's Guide provides streamlined coverage of the six most commonly assigned genres in first-year composition--remembering events, writing profiles, explaining concepts, arguing a position, proposing a solution, and justifying an evaluation. The>Concise Guide>leads students through the writing process: Guides to Reading equip students to analyze a genre's basic features, and Axelrod and Cooper's distinctive Guides to Writing help students apply their analysis of reading to the development of their own writing projects. With more hands-on activities for critical reading and working with sources, greater emphasis on the rhetorical situation, and a fresh new design to show students the strategies they need at a glance, the>Concise Guide helps students accomplish their writing goals from start to finish. Our newest set of online materials, LaunchPad Solo, provides all the key tools and course-specific content that you need to teach your class. Get all our great course-specific materials in one fully customizable space online; then assign and mix our resources with yours. To package LaunchPad Solo free with>The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing, use ISBN 978-1-319-00686-0.

Rise B.Axelrod is Emeritus McSweeney Professor of Rhetoric and Teaching Excellence at the University of California, Riverside, where she also served as the director of English Composition. She was previously a professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino; director of the University of Colorado, Boulder's College Expository Department; and assistant director of the University of California, San Diego's Third College (now Thurgood Marshall College) Composition Program. She co-wrote the book with Charles R. Cooper, author of the best-selling The St. Martin's Guide to Writing, The Short Guide to Writing, and Reading Critically, Writing Well are all excellent resources for writers.

Charles R. Cooper is a University of California, San Diego, emeritus professor. He was the coordinator of the University of California, San Diego's Third College (now Thurgood Marshall College) Composition Program and co-director of the San Diego Writing Project, one of the National Writing Project Centers. He helped to establish California's first statewide writing assessment (1986-1991) and advised the National Assessment of Educational Progress Writing (1973-1981). He taught at the University of California, Riverside, Buffalo State University, and the University of California, San Diego.

He co-edited Assessing Writing and Research on Composing: Points of Departure with Lee Odell, and he and Rise Axelrod co-authored the best-selling textbook The St. Martin's Guide to Writing, The Short Guide to Writing, and Reading Critically, Writing Well are all excellent resources for writers.

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ISBN 10	131905854X
Title	The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing
Author	University Rise B Axelrod
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bedford Books
Year published	2017-09-01
Number of pages	528
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