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Sticks & Stones
Tenth Edition©2019 Rise B. Axelrod; Charles R. Cooper
A unique collection of 40 essays by students.
Get inspiration from students students around the country with this collection of diverse and approachable models for the writing assignments in Part 1 of The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing. The chapters in Sticks and Stones correspond to the chapters in Part One of the Guide. Packaged free with the Guide and available in LaunchPad for The St. Martin’s Guide.
Table of Contents
*Indicates essays new to this edition
Preface for Instructors
To the Student
1 Literacy Narratives
A Critical Reading Guide
*Jonathan Escobar (University of California, Riverside), Lost in Translation
*Gabriel Zamora (University of California, Riverside), The Game
2 Remembering an Event
A Peer Review Guide
Nicole Ball (Niagara University), Sticks and Stones
Stephanie Legge (University of California, Riverside), In a Ditch
Samantha Wright (University of California, Riverside), Starving for Control
Julia Barojas (University of California, Riverside), Almost Quitting
James Ziech (University of Wisconsin, Baraboo/Sauk County), Worse Than a Lump of Coal
3 Writing Profiles
A Peer Review Guide
*Isaiah Williams (University of California, Riverside), To Protect and Serve
Linda Fine (University of California, Riverside), Bringing Ingenuity Back
Bonnie Lapwood (Mt. San Jacinto College, Menifee Valley), Modernizing a Remnant of the Mid-Twentieth Century
Natasha Farhoodi (Texas Woman’s University), Mad World Records
4 Explaining a Concept
A Peer Review Guide
Katie Angeles (University of California, Riverside), The Forgotten Personality
Sheila McClain (Western Wyoming Community College), Proxemics: A Study of Space and Relationships
*Jonathan Potthast (University of California, Riverside), Supervolcanoes: A Catastrophe of Ice and Fire
Etoria Spears (University of California, Riverside), Therapeutic Cloning and Embryonic Research
Max Wu (University of California, Riverside), The Disorder That Hides Within
William Tucker (University of California, Riverside), The Art and Creativity of Stop-Motion
5 Analyzing and Synthesizing Opposing Arguments
A Peer Review Guide
Luke Serrano (University of California, Riverside), Gambling and Government Restriction
Chris Sexton (University of California, Riverside), Virtual Reality?
Matthew Chrisler (University of California, Riverside), Are Laissez-Faire Policies to Blame?
Brittany Koehler (Oakland Community College, Orchard Ridge), Criminal DNA Databases: Enhancing Police Investigations or Violating Civil Rights?
Adam Hood (University of California, Riverside), Online Piracy: A David and Goliath Debate
6 Arguing a Position
A Peer Review Guide
*Liam Hwang (Boston College), Animal Rights
*Heather Nickell (Murray State College), Fracking: Drilling Toward Disaster
Tan-Li Hsu (University of California, Riverside), Energy Drinks
Mary Hake (Pierce College), With Each Seed a Farmer Plants
7 Proposing a Solution
A Peer Review Guide
Max Moore (University of California, Riverside), The Social Security Problem
Monica Perez (The Catholic University of America), Cracking Down on Lighting Up
James Benge (University of California, Riverside), Adapting to the Disappearance of Honeybees
Kati Huff (Lake Michigan College), Unhealthy Lunchrooms: Toxic for Schoolchildren and the Environment
8 Justifying an Evaluation
A Peer Review Guide
Matthew Fontilla (Chaffey College), Watchmen
Jane Kim (University of California, Riverside), Evaluation of Nickel and Dimed
Julie Plucinski (Triton College), Satellite Radio
9 Arguing for Causes or Effects
A Peer Review Guide
Michele Cox (University of California, Riverside), The Truth about Lying
Victoria Radford (Texas Woman’s University), Mayday! Mayday!
Virginia Gagliardi (Lebanon Valley College), Left Out
Stephanie Cox (Metropolitan Community College), Hispanic Pride vs. American Assimilation
10 Analyzing Stories
A Peer Review Guide
Sarah Hawkins (University of California, San Diego), "In Love"
Margaret Tate (DeKalb College), Irony and Intuition in "A Jury of Her Peers"
*Justine Appel (Arizona State University), The Short, Happy Life of Louise Mallard
A Note on the Copyediting
Sample Copyediting
Submission Form
Rise B. Axelrod
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 textbooks The St. Martin's Guide to Writing and The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing, as well as Reading Critically, Writing Well.
Charles R. Cooper
Charles R. Cooper, was emeritus professor at the University of California, San Diego until his passing in 2017. 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 study and coordinated the development of California's first statewide writing assessment. He taught at the University of California, Riverside; the State University of New York at Buffalo; and the University of California, San Diego. Co-editor, with Lee Odell, of Evaluating Writing and Research on Composing: Points of Departure, and he was co-author, with Rise Axelrod, of the best-selling textbooks The St. Martin's Guide to Writing and The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing, as well as Reading Critically, Writing Well.
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