The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing, 11th Edition

Whether you have years of experience as a teacher or are new to the classroom, you and your students can count on The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing to provide the support you need in first-year composition, with a rhetoric, an array of engaging readings, a research manual, and a handbook, all in a single book — and available online. Thousands of instructors and their students rely on the Guide’s proven approach because it works: the Guide’s acclaimed step-by-step writing guides to 9 different genres offer sure-fire invention strategies to get students started, sentence strategies to get students writing, and thoughtful revision strategies to help students make their writing their own, no matter what their major. With its hands-on activities for reading like a writer and working with sources, there is no better text to help students bridge reading analytically to successful writing in first-year composition and beyond.

In keeping with the Guide’s tradition of innovation and based on instructor feedback about what assignments they give their students, the new edition integrates new types of writing that reflect the range of genres being assigned in first-year composition, including a reimagined Chapter 5 that provides a bridge from personal and expository to argumentative writing by following a scaffolded approach.

The eleventh edition is available with LaunchPad for The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing, an online course space of pre-built units featuring the full e-book, tutorials, and adaptive LearningCurve activities to help students hone their understanding of reading and writing.  To order or purchase the print text with LaunchPad, use ISBN 9781457698484 for the Cloth-bound version, ISBN 9781319016036 for the Paper-bound version, or ISBN 9781319016067 for the Short Edition.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Composing Literacy
Chapter 2. Remembering an Event
Chapter 3. Writing Profiles
Chapter 4. Explaining a Concept
Chapter 5. Analyzing and Synthesizing Opposing Arguments
Chapter 6. Arguing a Position
Chapter 7. Proposing a Solution
Chapter 8. Justifying an Evaluation
Chapter 9. Arguing for Causes or Effects
Chapter 10. Analyzing Stories
Chapter 11. A Catalog of Invention and Inquiry Strategies
Chapter 12. A Catalog of Reading Strategies
Chapter 13. Cueing the Reader
Chapter 14. Narrating
Chapter 15. Describing
Chapter 16. Defining
Chapter 17. Classifying
Chapter 18. Comparing and Contrasting
Chapter 19. Arguing
Chapter 20. Planning a Research Project
Chapter 21. Finding Sources and Conducting Field Research
Chapter 22. Evaluating Sources
Chapter 23. Using Sources to Support Your Ideas
Chapter 24. Citing and Documenting Sources in MLA Style
Chapter 25. Citing and Documenting Sources in APA Style
Chapter 26. Taking Essay Examinations
Chapter 27. Creating a Portfolio
Chapter 28. Analyzing Visuals
Chapter 29. Writing in Business and Scientific Genres
Chapter 30. Writing for and about Your Community
Chapter 31. Writing Collaboratively
Chapter 32. Designing for Page and Screen
Chapter 33. Composing Multimodal Presentations