Cover: The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing with 2021 MLA Update, 9th Edition by Rise Axelrod; Charles Cooper

The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing with 2021 MLA Update

Ninth Edition  ©2021 Rise Axelrod; Charles Cooper Formats: E-book

Authors

  • Headshot of Rise B. Axelrod

    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.

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

Product Updates

The ebook has been updated to give your students the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

ACHIEVE with The Concise St. Martin’s Guide to Writing. Achieve puts student writing at the center of your course and keeps revision at the core, with a dedicated composition space that guides students through drafting, peer review, source check, reflection, and revision, developed to support best practices in commenting on student drafts. Achieve also includes a full e-book, a set of reading comprehension quizzes, and fully customizable book-specific writing assignments.

New support for reflection encourages transfer across assignments and courses. New annotations encourage students to write mindfully, by reflecting on their writing processes, rhetorical situations, and the reading-writing connection, among other topics. In conjunction with other features, such as the Practicing the Genre activities at the start of each Part 1 chapter and Reflection activities at the end of each Part 1 chapter, students are encouraged to develop a meta-awareness of their own writing experiences and preferences.

3 new annotated student essays and 9 compelling new professional readings demonstrate the basic features of the genres and provide effective models for student writers The Part One chapters provide a variety of engaging selections by well-known authors and fresh voices, from Annie Dillard and Lindsay Grace to Ta-Nehisi Coates and Katherine Isbister, as well as approachable examples by students.

A new supplement supports students taking a co-requisite or ALP course alongside first-year composition. The new Student’s Companion for The Concise St. Martin’s Guide to Writing is designed to give students extra support with writing assignments. The text offers tips for student success, including advice about time management, academic planning, and beating test anxiety; additional activities to help students develop thoughtful, college-level essays; assessment rubrics for every writing assignment, sentence strategies for academic writing, and extra practice identifying and correcting some of the most common writing errors. Available at a significant discount when packaged with the Concise Guide and also in Achieve.

Authors

  • Headshot of Rise B. Axelrod

    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.

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

Product Updates

The ebook has been updated to give your students the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

ACHIEVE with The Concise St. Martin’s Guide to Writing. Achieve puts student writing at the center of your course and keeps revision at the core, with a dedicated composition space that guides students through drafting, peer review, source check, reflection, and revision, developed to support best practices in commenting on student drafts. Achieve also includes a full e-book, a set of reading comprehension quizzes, and fully customizable book-specific writing assignments.

New support for reflection encourages transfer across assignments and courses. New annotations encourage students to write mindfully, by reflecting on their writing processes, rhetorical situations, and the reading-writing connection, among other topics. In conjunction with other features, such as the Practicing the Genre activities at the start of each Part 1 chapter and Reflection activities at the end of each Part 1 chapter, students are encouraged to develop a meta-awareness of their own writing experiences and preferences.

3 new annotated student essays and 9 compelling new professional readings demonstrate the basic features of the genres and provide effective models for student writers The Part One chapters provide a variety of engaging selections by well-known authors and fresh voices, from Annie Dillard and Lindsay Grace to Ta-Nehisi Coates and Katherine Isbister, as well as approachable examples by students.

A new supplement supports students taking a co-requisite or ALP course alongside first-year composition. The new Student’s Companion for The Concise St. Martin’s Guide to Writing is designed to give students extra support with writing assignments. The text offers tips for student success, including advice about time management, academic planning, and beating test anxiety; additional activities to help students develop thoughtful, college-level essays; assessment rubrics for every writing assignment, sentence strategies for academic writing, and extra practice identifying and correcting some of the most common writing errors. Available at a significant discount when packaged with the Concise Guide and also in Achieve.

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

The ebook has been updated to give your students the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

Available for the first time with Macmillans new online learning tool, Achieve, The Concise St. Martins Guide to Writing provides streamlined, accessible support for the 6 most common writing assignments—remembering events (memoir), writing profiles, explaining concepts, arguing a position, proposing a solution, and justifying an evaluation—and chapters that build the skills of analysis, synthesis, and research. Thousands of instructors and their students rely on the Concise Guide’s proven approach because it works: Acclaimed step-by-step reading and writing guides offer sure-fire inventions that get students started and revision strategies that help them develop their writing. The new edition continues in its strategies to serve a diverse audience of schools and students with new support for reflection that encourages the transfer of skills, and a new Student’s Companion for students taking co-requisite or ALP courses.

Now available with Achieve for The Concise St. Martin’s Guide to Writing, an online course space featuring the full e-book, writing tools with pre-built assignments across several drafts, peer review, customizable rubrics, reading comprehension quizzes and summary practice, and adaptive LearningCurve activities to help students hone their understanding of reading and writing.

Looking for instructor resources like Test Banks, Lecture Slides, and Clicker Questions? Request access to Achieve to explore the full suite of instructor resources.

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