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A step-by-step brief guide to reading and writing in college

This ebook has been updated to provide you with the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

The Concise St. Martins Guide’s step-by-step reading and writing guides offer sure-fire help for getting started and developing and revising your writing. With its classroom-tested advice and hands-on activities for reading like a writer and working with sources, there isnt a more straightforward text to help you read analytically and write successfully in college.

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Contents

Table of Contents

1 Composing Literacy
Part 1 Writing Activities
2 Remembering an Event
3 Writing Profiles
4 Explaining a Concept
5 Analyzing and Synthesizing Opposing Arguments
6 Arguing a Position
7 Proposing a Solution
8 Justifying an Evaluation
Part 2 Critical Thinking and Writing Strategies
9 A Catalog of Invention and Inquiry Strategies
10  A Catalog of Reading Strategies
11  Cueing the Reader
12  Arguing
13 Analyzing and Composing Multimodal Texts
Part 3 Research Strategies
14  Planning and Conducting Research
15  Selecting and Evaluating Sources
16  Using Sources to Support Your Ideas
17  Citing and Documenting Sources in MLA Style
18  Citing and Documenting Sources in APA Style

Authors

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. Martins Guide to Writing and The Concise St. Martins 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 Californias 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. Martins Guide to Writing and The Concise St. Martins Guide to Writing, as well as Reading Critically, Writing Well.


Axelrod and Cooper’s essential writing guides in a portable package

A step-by-step brief guide to reading and writing in college

This ebook has been updated to provide you with the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

The Concise St. Martins Guide’s step-by-step reading and writing guides offer sure-fire help for getting started and developing and revising your writing. With its classroom-tested advice and hands-on activities for reading like a writer and working with sources, there isnt a more straightforward text to help you read analytically and write successfully in college.

E-book

Read online (or offline) with all the highlighting and notetaking tools you need to be successful in this course.

Learn More

Table of Contents

1 Composing Literacy
Part 1 Writing Activities
2 Remembering an Event
3 Writing Profiles
4 Explaining a Concept
5 Analyzing and Synthesizing Opposing Arguments
6 Arguing a Position
7 Proposing a Solution
8 Justifying an Evaluation
Part 2 Critical Thinking and Writing Strategies
9 A Catalog of Invention and Inquiry Strategies
10  A Catalog of Reading Strategies
11  Cueing the Reader
12  Arguing
13 Analyzing and Composing Multimodal Texts
Part 3 Research Strategies
14  Planning and Conducting Research
15  Selecting and Evaluating Sources
16  Using Sources to Support Your Ideas
17  Citing and Documenting Sources in MLA Style
18  Citing and Documenting Sources in APA Style
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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. Martins Guide to Writing and The Concise St. Martins Guide to Writing, as well as Reading Critically, Writing Well.


Headshot of Charles R. Cooper

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 Californias 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. Martins Guide to Writing and The Concise St. Martins Guide to Writing, as well as Reading Critically, Writing Well.


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