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The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing
Ninth Edition| ©2021 Rise Axelrod; Charles Cooper
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The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing
Ninth Edition| ©2021
Rise Axelrod; Charles Cooper
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The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing
Ninth Edition| 2021
Rise Axelrod; Charles Cooper
Table of Contents
1 Composing LiteracyPart 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

The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing
Ninth Edition| 2021
Rise Axelrod; Charles Cooper
Authors

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. Martin's Guide to Writing and The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing, as well as Reading Critically, Writing Well.

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 California's 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. Martin's Guide to Writing and The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing, as well as Reading Critically, Writing Well.

The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing
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Rise Axelrod; Charles Cooper
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The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing
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Rise Axelrod; Charles Cooper
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