Reading Critically, Writing Well: A Reader and Guide

Axelrod, Rise B.; Cooper, Charles R.; Warriner, Alison M.

ISBN 10: 1319032753 / ISBN 13: 9781319032753

Published by Bedford/St. Martin's, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading Critically, Writing Well: A Reader and Guide
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1319032753
• ISBN 13: 9781319032753
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Improve your collegiate writing abilities with the strategies for reading like a writer found in Reading Critically, Writing Well.

About the Author

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 textbook The St. Martin's Guide to Writing as well as The St.Martin's Concise Guide to Writing. Charles R. Cooper is an emeritus professor at the University of California, San Diego. 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. He is co-editor, with Lee Odell, of Evaluating Writing and Research on Composing: Points of Departure, and he is co-author, with Rise Axelrod, of the best-selling textbook The St. Martin's Guide to Writing as well as The Concise St.Martin's Guide to Writing.

Alison M. Warriner is professor of English emerita at California State University, East Bay, where she was the Coordinator of Composition and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum. Previously she was Director of Communications at Sacred Heart University. She is co-author of Academic Literacy: A Statement of Competencies Expected of Students Entering California's Public Colleges and Universities (2002) and of the Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC 2005-present) that is currently adopted as Senior English in many California public high schools."