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Achieve for Readers and Writers (1-Term Access; Multi-Course)
Third Edition ©2026 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
Pre-reading Strategies
During-reading Strategies
Post-reading Strategies
Using Digital Tools for Active Reading
Understanding Vocabulary
Identifying Topics, Main Ideas, and Supporting Details
Reading Interpretively and Making Inferences
Reading Critically
Recognizing Patterns of Organization (Modes)
Prewriting: Generating and Organizing Ideas
Writing Modes (Patterns of Organization)
Writing Description
Writing Narration
Writing Definition Paragraphs and Essays
Writing Illustration/Example
Writing Process (Lists and Sequences)
Drafting a Thesis Statement
Drafting Paragraphs and Essays
Revising
Editing
Writing a Summary
Writing an Analysis
Introduction to Argument (video)
OVERVIEW: RESEARCH
Planning a Research Project and Finding Sources
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
Popular versus Scholarly Sources
Evaluating Sources
Taking Notes That Summarize, Paraphrase, or Quote from Sources
Using Research to Support Your Ideas
Writing Ethically and Responsibly
Documenting Sources
What Are the Parts of Speech?
Nouns
Articles and Nouns for Multilingual Writers
Pronouns
Verbs
Verbs for Multilingual Writers
Adjectives and Adverbs
Prepositions and Conjunctions
Prepositions and Idiomatic Verbs for Multilingual Writers
Basic Sentence Patterns
Simple and Complete Subjects
Sentence Structure for Multilingual Writers
Subject-Verb Agreement
Fragments
Run-ons
Coordination and Subordination
Introduction to Coordination and Subordination (video)
Parallelism
Modifier Placement
Mixed and Incomplete Constructions
Active and Passive Voice
Product Updates
A fully revised and updated ebook provides better support for composition and corequisite support sections. Highlights of the revision include:
- improved coverage of reading skills and strategies, with more advice for analyzing texts
- greatly expanded coverage of research to support students through the entire research process, from planning a research project, finding and evaluating sources, and taking notes to integrating sources, avoiding plagiarism, and documenting sources.
- new advice–and cautions–about using AI tools to assist with reading, writing, and research tasks new advice for writing inclusively, including updated coverage of pronouns and language choices
- new examples and sample passages throughout the text that represent more engaging topics, more varied perspectives, and more diverse student identities and experiences
Authors
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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
Pre-reading Strategies
During-reading Strategies
Post-reading Strategies
Using Digital Tools for Active Reading
Understanding Vocabulary
Identifying Topics, Main Ideas, and Supporting Details
Reading Interpretively and Making Inferences
Reading Critically
Recognizing Patterns of Organization (Modes)
Prewriting: Generating and Organizing Ideas
Writing Modes (Patterns of Organization)
Writing Description
Writing Narration
Writing Definition Paragraphs and Essays
Writing Illustration/Example
Writing Process (Lists and Sequences)
Drafting a Thesis Statement
Drafting Paragraphs and Essays
Revising
Editing
Writing a Summary
Writing an Analysis
Introduction to Argument (video)
OVERVIEW: RESEARCH
Planning a Research Project and Finding Sources
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
Popular versus Scholarly Sources
Evaluating Sources
Taking Notes That Summarize, Paraphrase, or Quote from Sources
Using Research to Support Your Ideas
Writing Ethically and Responsibly
Documenting Sources
What Are the Parts of Speech?
Nouns
Articles and Nouns for Multilingual Writers
Pronouns
Verbs
Verbs for Multilingual Writers
Adjectives and Adverbs
Prepositions and Conjunctions
Prepositions and Idiomatic Verbs for Multilingual Writers
Basic Sentence Patterns
Simple and Complete Subjects
Sentence Structure for Multilingual Writers
Subject-Verb Agreement
Fragments
Run-ons
Coordination and Subordination
Introduction to Coordination and Subordination (video)
Parallelism
Modifier Placement
Mixed and Incomplete Constructions
Active and Passive Voice
Product Updates
A fully revised and updated ebook provides better support for composition and corequisite support sections. Highlights of the revision include:
- improved coverage of reading skills and strategies, with more advice for analyzing texts
- greatly expanded coverage of research to support students through the entire research process, from planning a research project, finding and evaluating sources, and taking notes to integrating sources, avoiding plagiarism, and documenting sources.
- new advice–and cautions–about using AI tools to assist with reading, writing, and research tasks new advice for writing inclusively, including updated coverage of pronouns and language choices
- new examples and sample passages throughout the text that represent more engaging topics, more varied perspectives, and more diverse student identities and experiences
Confident readers and writers start here
Students come to writing courses with different levels of preparedness. Achieve for Readers and Writers provides a personalized, interactive learning experience for every student, including those in corequisite support sections. The third edition maximizes student engagement and success with learning modules that provide new multimodal interactive lessons, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, and self-paced activities for targeted practice.Diagnostics establish a baseline for proficiency in grammar, writing, and reading, and the personalized study plan directs students to areas for improvement. Achieve also supports student writing with writing tools that guide students through drafting, peer review, plagiarism checks, reflection, and revision, while making it easier for instructors to provide timely, personalized feedback.
Talk to your representative about pairing Achieve for Readers and Writers with one of our readers, and realize the benefits of writing tools plus quality reading selections.
Success Stories
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If you’re a verified instructor, you can request a free sample of our courseware, e-book, or print textbook to consider for use in your courses. Only registered and verified instructors can receive free print and digital samples, and they should not be sold to bookstores or book resellers. If you don't yet have an existing account with Macmillan Learning, it can take up to two business days to verify your status as an instructor. You can request a free sample from the right side of this product page by clicking on the "Request Instructor Sample" button or by contacting your rep. Learn more.
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Sometimes also referred to as a spiral-bound or binder-ready textbook, loose-leaf textbooks are available to purchase. This three-hole punched, unbound version of the book costs less than a hardcover or paperback book.
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Achieve (full course) includes our complete e-book, as well as online quizzing tools, multimedia assets, and iClicker active classroom manager.
Most Achieve Essentials courses do not include our e-books and adaptive quizzing.
Visit our comparison table for details: https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/us/digital/achieve/compare
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Achieve (full course) includes our complete e-book, as well as online quizzing tools, multimedia assets, and iClicker active classroom manager.
Achieve Read & Practice only includes our e-book and adaptive quizzing, and does not include instructor resources and assignable assessments. Read & Practice does integrate with LMS.
Visit our comparison table for details: https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/us/digital/achieve/compare
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We can help! Contact your representative to discuss your specific needs for your course. If our off-the-shelf course materials don’t quite hit the mark, we also offer custom solutions made to fit your needs.
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Are you a campus bookstore looking for ordering information?
MPS Order Search Tool (MOST) is a web-based purchase order tracking program that allows customers to view and track their purchases. No registration or special codes needed! Just enter your BILL-TO ACCT # and your ZIP CODE to track orders.
Canadian Stores: Please use only the first five digits/letters in your zip code on MOST.
Visit MOST, our online ordering system for booksellers: https://tracking.mpsvirginia.com/Login.aspx
Learn more about our Bookstore programs here: https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/us/contact-us/booksellers
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Our courses currently integrate with Canvas, Blackboard (Learn and Ultra), Brightspace, D2L, and Moodle. Click on the support documentation below to find out more details about the integration with each LMS.
Integrate Macmillan courses with Blackboard
Integrate Macmillan courses with Canvas
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If you’re a verified instructor, you can request a free sample of our courseware, e-book, or print textbook to consider for use in your courses. Only registered and verified instructors can receive free print and digital samples, and they should not be sold to bookstores or book resellers. If you don't yet have an existing account with Macmillan Learning, it can take up to two business days to verify your status as an instructor. You can request a free sample from the right side of this product page by clicking on the "Request Instructor Sample" button or by contacting your rep. Learn more.
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Sometimes also referred to as a spiral-bound or binder-ready textbook, loose-leaf textbooks are available to purchase. This three-hole punched, unbound version of the book costs less than a hardcover or paperback book.
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Achieve (full course) includes our complete e-book, as well as online quizzing tools, multimedia assets, and iClicker active classroom manager.
Most Achieve Essentials courses do not include our e-books and adaptive quizzing.
Visit our comparison table for details: https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/us/digital/achieve/compare
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Achieve (full course) includes our complete e-book, as well as online quizzing tools, multimedia assets, and iClicker active classroom manager.
Achieve Read & Practice only includes our e-book and adaptive quizzing, and does not include instructor resources and assignable assessments. Read & Practice does integrate with LMS.
Visit our comparison table for details: https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/us/digital/achieve/compare
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We can help! Contact your representative to discuss your specific needs for your course. If our off-the-shelf course materials don’t quite hit the mark, we also offer custom solutions made to fit your needs.
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Achieve for Readers and Writers (1-Term Access; Multi-Course)
Students come to writing courses with different levels of preparedness. Achieve for Readers and Writers provides a personalized, interactive learning experience for every student, including those in corequisite support sections. The third edition maximizes student engagement and success with learning modules that provide new multimodal interactive lessons, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, and self-paced activities for targeted practice.
Diagnostics establish a baseline for proficiency in grammar, writing, and reading, and the personalized study plan directs students to areas for improvement. Achieve also supports student writing with writing tools that guide students through drafting, peer review, plagiarism checks, reflection, and revision, while making it easier for instructors to provide timely, personalized feedback.
Talk to your representative about pairing Achieve for Readers and Writers with one of our readers, and realize the benefits of writing tools plus quality reading selections.
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