The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing

The Concise St. Martins Guide provides step-by-step guides to writing and reading to help you learn those essential skills and apply them to all of your college courses.

1 Composing Literacy
Part 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