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You Get More Choices for The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing
Choose the Flexible Bedford e-Portfolio
Make it easy for students to showcase their work, whether for their class, their job, or their friends. With straightforward, flexible assessment tools, instructors can easily map rubrics and learning outcomes to student work or simply invite students to start their collections. Visit bedfordstmartins.com/eportfolio.
Watch Peer Review in Action
Eli Review gives teachers a real-time window into what’s happening in drafts and feedback. Eli helps writers shape concrete revision plans and motivates reviewers to up their game. Visit bedfordstmartins.com/eli.
Bring It All Together with the x-Book for The St. Martin’s Guide
Bedford’s new x-Book integrates the tools and content that writers—and their teachers—need to develop and assess their work. The x-Book for The St. Martin’s Guide includes LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, multimodal readings, and additional quizzes and resources that can be added to your table of contents.
Select Value Packages
Re:Writing Plus. Because composition is getting redefined—when, where, and how we see it—Bedford/St. Martin’s is committed to developing new kinds of tools for the changing classroom. The first-ever peer review game; videos of real writers talking about the writing process; the most innovative and interactive help with writing a paragraph; tutorials and practice with writing and research that show how they work in your students’ real-world experience; hundreds of models of writing across the disciplines; and hundreds of readings: These resources meet composition where it happens,—online, all the time. To order Re:Writing Plus packaged with the St. Martin’s Guide, please use the following ISBNs:
Tenth Edition (paper), ISBN 978-1-4576-4618-8 |
Short Tenth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4576-4613-3 |
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Tenth Edition (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4576-4612-6 |
Tenth Edition (loose-leaf), ISBN 978-1-4576-4753-6 |
VideoCentral: English (Access Card). At 142 videos and counting, VideoCentral: English is the premiere collection of video content for the English classroom. With content drawn from interviews that have literally spanned the nation, our videos include some of the best writers across the literary realm, the media industries, and the academic world—writers like Ha Jin, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Frank McCourt. And they include students across the disciplines who are learning how important writing is for their success in college and beyond. Topics include every stage of the writing process, the elements of each genre, and the ways that writing has been shaped by media and technology.
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Tenth Edition (paper), ISBN 978-1-4576-4620-1 |
Short Tenth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4576-4619-5 |
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Tenth Edition (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4576-4621-8 |
Tenth Edition (loose-leaf), ISBN 978-1-4576-4751-2 |
ix: visualizing composition 2.0 (available online) helps students put into practice key rhetorical and visual concepts.
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Tenth Edition (paper), ISBN 978-1-4576-4625-6 |
Short Tenth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4576-4627-0 |
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Tenth Edition (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4576-4626-3 |
Tenth Edition (loose-leaf), ISBN 978-1-4576-4749-9 |
i-claim: visualizing argument 2.0 (available online) offers a new way to see argument—with six multimodal tutorials, an illustrated glossary, more than fifty multimedia arguments, and integrated gradebook reporting.
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Tenth Edition (paper), ISBN 978-1-4576-4623-2 |
Short Tenth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4576-4622-5 |
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Tenth Edition (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4576-4624-9 |
Tenth Edition (loose-leaf), ISBN 978-1-4576-4752-9 |
i-cite: visualizing sources (available online as part of Re:Writing Plus) brings research to life through an animated introduction, four tutorials, and hands-on source practice.
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Tenth Edition (paper), ISBN 978-1-4576-4630-0 |
Short Tenth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4576-4629-4 |
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Tenth Edition (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4576-4632-4 |
Tenth Edition (loose-leaf), ISBN 978-1-4576-4748-2 |
Sticks and Stones and Other Student Essays, Eighth Edition. A collection of more than forty essays written by students across the nation using earlier editions of the Guide. Each essay is accompanied by a headnote that spotlights some of the ways the writer uses the genre successfully, invites students to notice other achievements, and supplies context where necessary. Sticks and Stones is available for free when packaged with new copies of the Guide.
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Tenth Edition (paper), ISBN 978-1-4576-5438-1 |
Short Tenth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4576-5416-9 |
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Tenth Edition (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4576-5415-2 |
Tenth Edition (loose-leaf), ISBN 978-1-4576-5437-4 |
The student site offers free and open resources for The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing, including the following:
- Grammar, writing, and research exercises from Exercise Central and Diana Hacker, plus writing exercises and Andrea Lunsford’s list of the top twenty most common errors college writers make and how to correct them
- Videos of real writers
- Tutorials on designing documents, creating a Web site, avoiding plagiarism, and more
- Research resources, such as help citing sources or building a bibliography
- Marriage 101 and Other Student Essays, an online reader
- Document design resources
Bedford/St. Martin’s Supports Instructors
You have a lot to do in your course. Bedford/St. Martin’s wants to make it easy for you to find the support you need—and to get it quickly.
The Elements of Teaching Writing: A Resource for Instructors in All Disciplines. Written by Katherine Gottschalk and Keith Hjortshoj, The Elements of Teaching Writing (ISBN 978-0-312-40683-7). provides time-saving strategies and practical guidance in a brief reference form. Drawing on their extensive experience training instructors in all disciplines to incorporate writing into their courses, Gottschalk and Hjortshoj offer reliable advice, accommodating a wide range of teaching styles and class sizes, about how to design effective writing assignments and how to respond to and evaluate student writing in any course.
TeachingCentral (bedfordstmartins.com/teachingcentral). Designed for the convenience of instructors, this rich Web site lists and describes Bedford/St. Martin’s acclaimed print series of free professional sourcebooks, background readings, and bibliographies for teachers. In addition, TeachingCentral offers a host of free online resources, including the following:
- Bits, a blog that collects creative ideas for teaching composition from a community of teachers, scholars, authors, and editors; instructors are free to take, use, adapt, and pass the ideas around, in addition to sharing new suggestions
- Just-in-Time Teaching and Adjunct Central—downloadable syllabi, handouts, exercises, activities, assignments, teaching tips, and more, organized by resource type and by topic
- Take 20—a sixty-minute film for teachers, by teachers, in which twenty-two writing teachers answer twenty questions on current practices and emerging ideas in composition
Bedford Coursepacks. Available for the most common course management systems—Blackboard, Canvas, Angel, Desire2Learn, Sakai, and Moodle—Bedford coursepacks allow you to download Bedford/St. Martin’s digital materials for your course easily and quickly. Visit bedfordstmartins.com/coursepacks for more information.