The St. Martin’s Guide offers comprehensive yet flexible coverage: Whether the instructor has years of experience or is new to the classroom, the text provides a complete first-year composition class in a single book, with a rhetoric, an array of engaging reading selections, a research manual, and a handbook, all between two covers — and available online!
Its acclaimed Guides to Writing, based on the best of composition theory, reflect the classroom experience of countless seasoned instructors. Each Guide emphasizes the basic features of essays in that genre so that students internalize a systematic yet flexible approach to the composing process that can be transferred to any writing situation.
It provides thorough coverage of argumentation, with four of the assignment chapters focused on argumentative writing. Each assignment chapter encourages students to use the writing strategies that will make the text "speak" to readers, and the text includes a separate strategy chapter on argument for students and teachers who want more.
With 46 readings, over half new, the chapters in Part One provide a variety of compelling selections by well-known authors and fresh voices, as well as 12 selections by students (5 new!). Additional student models and reading selections (some multimodal) are available in the e-Pages for The St. Martin’s Guide and in the e-book.