TY  - BOOK
AU  - Axelrod,Rise B.
AU  - Cooper,Charles Raymond
TI  - The St. Martin's guide to writing
SN  - 9781457698484
AV  - PE1408 .A94 2016
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Boston, New York
PB  - Bedford/St. Martin's, a Macmillan Education imprint
KW  - English language
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Report writing
KW  - fast
KW  - Handbooks and manuals
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes index; Part 1. Writing activities -- Part 2. Critical thinking strategies -- Part 3. Writing strategies -- Part 4. Research strategies -- Part 5. Composing strategies for college and beyond; 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 -- 9. Arguing for causes or effects -- 10. Analyzing stories -- Part 2: Critical thinking strategies. -- 11. A catalog of invention and inquiry strategies -- 12. A catalog of reading strategies -- Part 3: Writing strategies. -- 13. Cueing the reader -- 14. Narrating -- 15. Describing -- 16. Defining -- 17. Classifying -- 18. Comparing and contrasting -- 19. Arguing -- Part 4: Research strategies. -- 20. Planning a research project -- 21. Finding sources and conducting field research -- 22. Evaluating sources -- 23. Using sources to support your ideas -- 24. Citing and documenting sources in MLA style -- 25. Citing and documenting sources in APA style -- Part 5: Composing strategies for college and beyond: -- 26. Taking essay examinations -- 27. Crating a portfolio -- 28. analyzing visuals -- 29. Writing in business and scientific genres -- 30. Writing for and about your community -- 31. Writing collaboratively -- 32. Designing for page and screen -- 33. Composing multimodal presentations
N2  - 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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