UPDATED SUMMER 2024

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Achieve for Readers and Writers (1-Term Access; Multi-Course)

Second Edition  ©2020 Bedford/St. Martin's Formats: Achieve

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    Bedford/St.Martin's

    Established in 1981, Bedford/St. Martin’s is the largest college publisher of textbooks for English composition courses. They publish best-selling textbooks like A Writer’s Reference, The St. Martin’s Guide to College Writing, and Patterns for College Writing.

Table of Contents

Welcome to Achieve for Readers and Writers
Diagnostics and Study Plans
Writing Assignments

OVERVIEW: READING
Reading Strategies
Understanding Vocabulary
Recognizing Patterns of Organization
Identifying Topics, Main Ideas, and Supporting Details
Reading Interpretively and Making Inferences
Reading Critically

DIRECTORY OF READINGS
Readings: Community, Family, and Identity
Readings: The Environment
Readings: Food
Readings: Language and Literacy
Readings: Psychology and Well-Being

OVERVIEW: WRITING
Topic, Audience, and Purpose
Organizing Ideas and Planning for Writing
Drafting a Thesis Statement
Drafting Paragraphs and Essays
Revising
Editing
Summarizing
Analyzing
Reading and Writing Arguments

OVERVIEW: RESEARCH
Working with Sources
Documentation Guides (MLA and APA)

OVERVIEW: PARTS OF SPEECH
Nouns
Articles and Nouns for Multilingual Writers
Pronouns
Verb Tense
Verbs for Multilingual Writers
Adjectives and Adverbs
Prepositions and Conjunctions
Prepositions and Idiomatic Verbs for Multilingual Writers

OVERVIEW: SENTENCES
Sentence Structure for Multilingual Writers
Subject-Verb Agreement
Fragments
Run-ons
Coordination and Subordination
Parallelism
Modifier Placement
Mixed and Incomplete Constructions
Active and Passive Voice

OVERVIEW: STYLE AND MECHANICS
Sentence Variety
Appropriate Language
Wordiness
Spelling
Commonly Confused Words
Abbreviations
Commas
Semicolons and Colons
Apostrophes
Quotation Marks
Capitalization
Italics
Hyphens
Acknowledgements

Product Updates

Summer 2024 Updates:

New! Corequisite Resource Manual in Achieve
Discover what Achieve offers for your corequisite composition course. Whether your focus is on honing students' reading and sentence skills, building the reading-writing connection, scaffolding the writing process, or fostering habits for lifelong learning, Achieve has the interactive resources you need. The new Corequisite Resource Manual includes a full description of each available resource, its pedagogical benefits, and best practices for assigning it. Now available in the Achieve courses for Patterns for College Writing, Achieve for Readers and Writers, The Bedford Guide for College Writers, and Successful College Writing.

Confident readers and writers start here

Students in writing courses come in at different levels of preparedness. Achieve for Readers and Writers offers a full-course solution that provides a personalized learning experience for every student. Diagnostics establish a baseline for proficiency in grammar, writing, and reading and a personalized study plan directs students to areas for improvement with learning modules that provide videos, tutorials, and quizzes for targeted practice on key concepts. 

Achieve also addresses student writing. Achieve’s writing tools break down the writing process for students, make revision choices more visible to instructors, and guide students through drafting, peer review, plagiarism checks, reflection, and revision.

Achieve for Readers and Writers also includes:

  • A comprehensive handbook that covers grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and style
  • A thematic reader with 25 selections that include Lexile levels, word counts, and quizzes
  • Learning modules with videos, tutorials, and adaptive quizzes for 45 topics ranging from grammar and mechanics to writing and reading
  • 21 pre-built writing assignments, including narrative, argument, summary, and synthesis essays
  • And so much more!

Talk to your representative about pairing Pair Achieve for Readers and Writers with one of our readers or writing guides, and realize the benefits of writing tools plus quality content. Your students will thank you–and they’ll save money, too!

Success Stories

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Use diagnostics in Achieve for a snapshot into cognitive and non-cognitive factors that may impact your students’ preparedness.

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