Product Description: Adapted from the best-selling The St. Martin's Guide to Writing, Axelrod & Cooper's Concise Guide to Writing provides six guided writing assignments along with readings and strategies for writing and research -- all in a brief, easy-to-use format.

Product Description: This unique collection of essays written by students around the country offers diverse and accessible models in the form of responses to writing assignments in the Guide. The chapters in Sticks and Stones correspond to the chapters in Part One of the Guide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)