The St. Martin's Guide to Writing, Short Edition
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The St. Martin's Guide to Writing, by offering the most successful combination of critical reading and writing instruction available today, has helped teach nearly two million students to write effectively at the college level. The Sixth Edition features a dynamic new full-color design, including visuals, that makes the readings, the Writing Guides, and the other major sections of the book easier than ever for students to find and use. Axelrod and Cooper have thoroughly revised and updated the text, adding practical new coverage of the high-interest topics of document design, oral presentation, collaborative writing, and writing in the community, along with expanded research guidelines for both print and online sources and a variety of new readings.
Prefacevii1Introduction1Part 1Writing Activities2Remembering Events253Remembering People794Writing Profiles1295Explaining a Concept1836Arguing a Position2377Proposing a Solution2938Justifying an Evaluation3519Speculating about Causes40710Interpreting Stories465Part 2Critical Thinking Strategies11A Catalog of Invention Strategies51512A Catalog of Reading Strategies529Part 3Writing Strategies13Cueing the Reader55714Narrating57315Describing58916Defining60117Classifying60918Comparing and Contrasting61719Arguing623Part 4Research Strategies20Field Research64121Library and Internet Research65522Using and Acknowledging Sources693Part 5Writing for Assessment23Essay Examinations73924Writing Portfolios759Part 6Writing and Speaking to Wider Audiences25Designing Documents76726Oral Presentations79327Working with Others79928Writing in Your Community805HandbookSentence Boundaries6Grammatical Sentences12Effective Sentences31Word Choice48Punctuation58Mechanics86ESL Troublespots105Review of Sentence Structure116Glossary of Frequently Misused Words133Author and Title Index1Subject Index5Index for ESL Writers27
