The St. Martin's guide to writing / Rise B. Axelrod, Charles R. Cooper.

By:

Axelrod, Rise B

Contributor(s):

Cooper, Charles Raymond, 1934- [aut]

Material type:

TextPublication details: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013.Edition: 10th edDescription: lii, 785, 115, 4, 33 p. : ill. col. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781457604508

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

808.042

Contents:

Ch. 1. Introduction: Thinking about writing -- Pt. 1 Writing Activities -- Ch. 2 Remembering an Event -- Ch. 3. Writing Profiles -- Ch. 4. Explaining a Concept -- Ch. 5. Finding Common Ground -- Ch. 6. Arguing a Position -- Ch. 7. Proposing a solution -- Ch. 8. Justifying an Evaluation -- Ch. 9. Speculation about Cases -- Ch. 10. Analyzing Stories -- Pt. 2. Critical Thinking Strategies -- Ch. 11. A Catalog of Invention Strategies -- Ch. 12. A Catalog of Reading Strategies -- Pt. 3. Writing Strategies -- Ch. 13. Cueing the Reader -- Ch. 14. Narrating -- Ch. 15. Describing -- Ch. 16. Defining -- Ch. 17. Classifying -- Ch. 18. Comparing and Contrasting -- Ch. 19. Arguing -- Ch. 20. Analyzing Visuals -- Ch. 21. Designing Documents -- Ch. 22. Writing in a Business and Scientific Genres -- Pt. 4. Research Strategies -- Ch. 23. Planning a Research Project -- Ch. 24. Finding Sources and Conducting Field Research -- Ch. 25. Evaluating Sources -- Ch. 26. Using Sources to Support Your Ideas -- Ch. 27. Citing and Documenting Sources in MLA Style -- Ch. 28. Citing and Documenting Sources in APA Style -- Pt. 5. Composing Strategies for College and Beyond -- Ch. 29. Essay Examinations -- Ch. 30. Writing Portfolio -- Pt. 6. Writing and Speaking to Wider Audiences -- Ch. 31. Oral Presentations -- Ch. 32. Working with Other -- Ch. 33. Writing in Your Community.

Summary: Whether you have years of experience as a teacher or are new to the classroom, you and your students can count on The St. Martin's Guide to Writing to provide the support you need in first-year composition, with a rhetoric, an array of engaging readings, a research manual, and a handbook, all in a single book and available online. Thousands of instructors and their students rely on the Guide's proven approach because it works: the Guide's acclaimed step-by-step writing guides to 9 different genres offer sure-fire invention strategies to get students started, sentence strategies to get students writing, and thoughtful revision strategies to help students make their writing their own, no matter what their major. With its hands-on activities for reading like a writer and working with sources, there is no better text to help students bridge reading analytically to successful writing in first-year composition and beyond. In keeping with the Guide's tradition of innovation and based on instructor feedback about what assignments they give their students, the new edition integrates new types of writing that reflect the range of genres being assigned in first-year composition, including a reimagined Chapter 5 that provides a bridge from personal and expository to argumentative writing by following a scaffolded approach.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Marbella International University Centre Library	808.042 AXE st (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	11210

Includes index.

Ch. 1. Introduction: Thinking about writing --
Pt. 1 Writing Activities --
Ch. 2 Remembering an Event --
Ch. 3. Writing Profiles --
Ch. 4. Explaining a Concept --
Ch. 5. Finding Common Ground --
Ch. 6. Arguing a Position --
Ch. 7. Proposing a solution --
Ch. 8. Justifying an Evaluation --
Ch. 9. Speculation about Cases --
Ch. 10. Analyzing Stories --
Pt. 2. Critical Thinking Strategies --
Ch. 11. A Catalog of Invention Strategies --
Ch. 12. A Catalog of Reading Strategies --
Pt. 3. Writing Strategies --
Ch. 13. Cueing the Reader --
Ch. 14. Narrating --
Ch. 15. Describing --
Ch. 16. Defining --
Ch. 17. Classifying --
Ch. 18. Comparing and Contrasting --
Ch. 19. Arguing --
Ch. 20. Analyzing Visuals --
Ch. 21. Designing Documents --
Ch. 22. Writing in a Business and Scientific Genres --
Pt. 4. Research Strategies --
Ch. 23. Planning a Research Project --
Ch. 24. Finding Sources and Conducting Field Research --
Ch. 25. Evaluating Sources --
Ch. 26. Using Sources to Support Your Ideas --
Ch. 27. Citing and Documenting Sources in MLA Style --
Ch. 28. Citing and Documenting Sources in APA Style --
Pt. 5. Composing Strategies for College and Beyond --
Ch. 29. Essay Examinations --
Ch. 30. Writing Portfolio --
Pt. 6. Writing and Speaking to Wider Audiences --
Ch. 31. Oral Presentations --
Ch. 32. Working with Other --
Ch. 33. Writing in Your Community.

Whether you have years of experience as a teacher or are new to the classroom, you and your students can count on The St. Martin's Guide to Writing to provide the support you need in first-year composition, with a rhetoric, an array of engaging readings, a research manual, and a handbook, all in a single book and available online. Thousands of instructors and their students rely on the Guide's proven approach because it works: the Guide's acclaimed step-by-step writing guides to 9 different genres offer sure-fire invention strategies to get students started, sentence strategies to get students writing, and thoughtful revision strategies to help students make their writing their own, no matter what their major. With its hands-on activities for reading like a writer and working with sources, there is no better text to help students bridge reading analytically to successful writing in first-year composition and beyond.

In keeping with the Guide's tradition of innovation and based on instructor feedback about what assignments they give their students, the new edition integrates new types of writing that reflect the range of genres being assigned in first-year composition, including a reimagined Chapter 5 that provides a bridge from personal and expository to argumentative writing by following a scaffolded approach.

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