EasyWriter with Exercises by Andrea A. Lunsford - Sixth Edition, 2017 from Macmillan Student Store

EasyWriter with Exercises

Sixth  Edition©2017 Andrea A. Lunsford

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EasyWriter with Exercises is the little handbook with the Andrea Lunsford difference. It features Andrea’s friendly voice, her research-based Top Twenty, her recognition that writing today is increasingly digital and multimodal, and above all, her respect and appreciation for student writers’ potential to change the world. When your students need reliable, easy-to-find writing advice for college and beyond, EasyWriter with Exercises gives them what they need in a format that’s easy to use and easy to afford. At a low $20 net price, the sixth edition packs in even more support for writing academic and real-world genres, with examples of over 40 types of writing in the print and digital resources, and thoroughly revised documentation advice based on the 2016 MLA guidelines.


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Table of Contents

WRITING PROCESSES
1 A Writer’s Choices 
2 Exploring, Planning, and Drafting
3 Making Design Decisions 
4 Reviewing, Revising, and Editing
5 Sharing and Reflecting on Your Writing
 
WRITING THAT WORKS
6 Learning from Low-Stakes Writing
7 Analyzing and Reading Critically
8 Building Arguments
9 Creating Portfolios
10 Writing in Academic Genres
11 Creating Presentations
12 Writing to Make Something Happen in the World
 
RESEARCH
13 Conducting Research
14 Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes
15 Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
16 Writing a Research Project
 
LANGUAGE
17 Writing across Cultures
18 Language That Builds Common Ground
19 Varieties of Language
20 Word Choice
 
GRAMMAR
21 Verbs and Verb Phrases
22 Nouns and Noun Phrases
23 Subject-Verb Agreement
24 Adjectives and Adverbs
25 Modifier Placement
26 Pronouns
27 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
28 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
29 Sentence Fragments
 
STYLE
30 Consistency and Completeness
31 Coordination and Subordination
32 Conciseness
33 Parallelism
34 Shifts
 
 
PUNCTUATION/MECHANICS
35 Commas
36 Semicolons
37 End Punctuation
38 Apostrophes
39 Quotation Marks
40 Other Punctuation
41 Capital Letters
42 Abbreviations and Numbers
43 Italics
44 Hyphens
 
DOCUMENTATION
45 MLA Style
46 APA Style
47 Chicago Style
48 CSE Style
 
Glossary of Usage
Index/Glossary of Terms

Andrea A. Lunsford

Andrea Lunsford, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English emerita and former Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, joined the Stanford faculty in 2000. Prior to this appointment, Lunsford was Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University (1986-2000). She has also been Associate Professor and Director of Writing at the University of British Columbia (1977-86). Currently a member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, Professor Lunsford earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Florida and completed her Ph.D. in English at The Ohio State University (1977).

Professor Lunsford's scholarly interests include contemporary rhetorical theory, women and the history of rhetoric, collaboration and collaborative writing, current cultures of writing, intellectual property and composing, style, and technologies of writing. She has written or coauthored many books, including Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse; Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing; and Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the History of Rhetoric, as well as numerous chapters and articles. For Bedford/St. Martin’s, she is the author of The St. Martin's Handbook, The Everyday Writer, EasyWriter, and Writing in Action; the co-author (with John Ruszkiewicz) of Everything’s an Argument and (with John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters) of Everything’s an Argument with Readings; and the co-author (with Lisa Ede) of Writing Together: Collaboration in Theory and Practice.

Professor Lunsford has conducted workshops on writing and program reviews at dozens of North American universities, served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, as Chair of the Modern Language Association Division on Writing, and as a member of the MLA Executive Council.