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

EasyWriter with Exercises

Sixth  Edition©2017  Andrea A. Lunsford

About

The little book with a big difference.

When you’re writing and researching, you want advice that you can find when you need it—and trust when you find it. EasyWriter with Exercises gives you the help you need in a format that’s easy to use and easy to afford. And EasyWriter with Exercises is the pocket handbook with the Andrea Lunsford difference. With Lunsford’s trademark research-based Top Twenty most common student writing issues, her recognition that writing today is increasingly digital and multimodal, and her friendly, encouraging voice, this little book can help with all the issues you face as a writer, in college and beyond.

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, she was Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University (1986-2000) and, before that, Associate Professor and Director of Writing at the University of British Columbia (1977-86) and Associate Professor of English at Hillsborough Community College. A frequent member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, Andrea 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). She holds honorary degrees from Middlebury College and The University of Ôrebro.

Andrea's scholarly interests include the contributions of women and people of color to rhetorical history, theory, and practice; collaboration and collaborative writing, comics/graphic narratives; translanguaging and 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, and EasyWriter; 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. She is also a regular contributor to the Bits teaching blog on Bedford/St. Martin’s English Community site.

Andrea has given presentations and workshops on the changing nature and scope of writing and critical language awareness at scores 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. In her spare time, she serves on the Board of La Casa Roja’s Next Generation Leadership Network, as Chair of the Kronos Quartet Performing Arts Association--and works diligently if not particularly well in her communal organic garden.