St. Martin's Guide to Writing - With CD / Edition 7

by Rise B. Axelrod, Charles R. Cooper

Overview

The St. Martin's Guide to Writing, by offering the most successful combination of critical reading and writing instruction available today, has helped teach nearly two million students to write effectively at the college level. The Sixth Edition features a dynamic new full-color design, including visuals, that makes the readings, the Writing Guides, and the other major sections of the book easier than ever for students to find and use. Axelrod and Cooper have thoroughly revised and updated the text, adding practical new coverage of the high-interest topics of document design, oral presentation, collaborative writing, and writing in the community, along with expanded research guidelines for both print and online sources and a variety of new readings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312400521
Publisher:	Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date:	03/28/2004
Edition description:	Seventh Edition
Pages:	1056
Product dimensions:	7.58(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.19(d)
Lexile:	1240L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
1	Introduction	1
Part 1	Writing Activities
2	Remembering Events	25
3	Remembering People	79
4	Writing Profiles	129
5	Explaining a Concept	183
6	Arguing a Position	237
7	Proposing a Solution	293
8	Justifying an Evaluation	351
9	Speculating about Causes	407
10	Interpreting Stories	465
Part 2	Critical Thinking Strategies
11	A Catalog of Invention Strategies	515
12	A Catalog of Reading Strategies	529
Part 3	Writing Strategies
13	Cueing the Reader	557
14	Narrating	573
15	Describing	589
16	Defining	601
17	Classifying	609
18	Comparing and Contrasting	617
19	Arguing	623
Part 4	Research Strategies
20	Field Research	641
21	Library and Internet Research	655
22	Using and Acknowledging Sources	693
Part 5	Writing for Assessment
23	Essay Examinations	739
24	Writing Portfolios	759
Part 6	Writing and Speaking to Wider Audiences
25	Designing Documents	767
26	Oral Presentations	793
27	Working with Others	799
28	Writing in Your Community	805
	Handbook
	Sentence Boundaries	6
	Grammatical Sentences	12
	Effective Sentences	31
	Word Choice	48
	Punctuation	58
	Mechanics	86
	ESL Troublespots	105
	Review of Sentence Structure	116
	Glossary of Frequently Misused Words	133
	Author and Title Index	1
	Subject Index	5
	Index for ESL Writers	27