Dear Friends and Colleagues,<br><br>As some of you may know, Charles Cooper has retired and I am looking for help as I plan the next edition of the <span style="font-style:italic">St. Martin's Guide to Writing</span>. I need help finding new professional and student readings as well as advice on how to improve the book -- and I can pay you for your assistance. <div>
<br></div><div>This is the first of two emails I will be sending asking for your help. This email tells how you can help me find new readings for the 9th edition of the <span style="font-style:italic">Guide</span>.<div>
<br>I'm looking for new readings by professionals and students for every chapter in Part One except Chapter 5, Explaining Opposing Positions. I will revise Chapter 5, but haven't yet decided on its focus. </div><div>
<br></div><div>Note, too, that for Chapter 10, Interpreting Stories, I am thinking of replacing "Araby" and the two student essays by Ratinov and Crane that analyze Joyce's story. The student essays you send me should be about one of the short stories currently in Chapter 10 or about a different brief and accessible short story that you would recommend. Please send me a copy of the story along with the student essays. <br>
<br><div><span style="text-decoration:underline">For Readings by Professionals</span></div><div> <br>Bedford/St. Martin's will pay you $100 to provide me with copies of 5 or more professionally published readings you'd recommend for SMG, 9th edition, which meet the following criteria:<br>
<ul><li>They reflect the basic features of the genre. <br>
</li><li>They are current, written within the last few years.<br></li><li>They reflect diversity.<br>
</li><li>They are relatively brief and accessible to your students. <br></li><li>They are likely to stimulate class discussion. <br></li></ul>Please submit two copies of each reading: one copy should be unmarked, and the second copy should include the following information:<div>
<ul><li>title, author, publication information, including the url if published online<br></li><li>any information about the author included with the reading<br></li><li>indication of the Part One chapter in which the reading belongs<br>
</li><li>your annotation of the readings, highlighting their basic features<br></li></ul></div><div><div><div><div>I need these reading recommendations by mid-June, or the end of June at the latest. After receiving your recommendations, I will carefully evaluate them for possible inclusion in the 9th edition, and Bedford/St. Martin's will pay you an additional $50 for each reading that we actually publish in the 9th edition. <br>
<br></div><div><span style="text-decoration:underline">For Student Essays</span><br><br></div><div>As always, I am also looking for student essays to include in the upcoming edition of the <span style="font-style:italic">St. Martin's Guide</span> or in the next edition of <span style="font-style:italic">Sticks and Stones</span>. If we publish a student essay you recommend to us, we will pay both you and the student $100 each. If you have access to any of the student's writing process material, please send that to me along with the finished essay for possible use as writer-at-work illustrations. The permission form for student essays is attached. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The student essays can come from any of your classes taught at UCR or at another campus.<br><br></div><div><span style="text-decoration:underline">Getting the Essays to Me</span></div>
<div><br></div><div>You can leave the essays in my UCR mailbox or email them to me as a word attachment or as a pdf.</div><div><br></div><div>If you have any questions or comments, do not hesitate to email me at <a href="mailto:rise.axelrod@ucr.edu" target="_blank">rise.axelrod@ucr.edu</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I want to thank those of you who have helped me with student essays and advice in the past. I look forward to working even more closely with you in future.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>
Rise <br>-- <br>Rise B. Axelrod<br>McSweeney Professor of Rhetoric and Teaching Excellence<br>Director of Composition<br>Department of English<br>University of California<br>Riverside, CA 92521<br><a href="mailto:rise.axelrod@ucr.edu" target="_blank">rise.axelrod@ucr.edu</a><br>
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