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Writing for College and Beyond
1. The Top Twenty: A Quick Guide to Troubleshooting Your Writing
2. Expectations for College Writing
3. Multimodal Assignments
4. Writing to Make Something Happen in the World
The Writing Process
5. Rhetorical Situations
6. Exploring Ideas
7. Planning and Drafting
8. Developing Paragraphs
9. Making Design Decisions
10. Reviewing and Revising
11. Editing and Reflecting
Critical Thinking and Argument
12. Critical Reading
13. Analyzing Arguments
14. Constructing Arguments
Research
15. Preparing for a Research Project
16. Doing Research
17. Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes
18. Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
19. Writing a Research Project
Language
20. Writing to the World
21. Language That Builds Common Ground
22. Language Variety
23. Word Choice and Spelling
24. Glossary of Usage
Sentence Style
25. Coordination, Subordination, and Emphasis
26. Consistency and Completeness
27. Parallelism
28. Shifts
29. Conciseness
30. Sentence Variety
Sentence Grammar
31. Basic Grammar
32. Verbs
33. Subject-Verb Agreement
34. Pronouns
35. Adjectives and Adverbs
36. Modifier Placement
37. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
38. Sentence Fragments
PUNCTUATION/MECHANICS
39. Commas
40. Semicolons
41. End Punctuation
42. Apostrophes
43. Quotation Marks
44. Other Punctuation Marks
45. Capital Letters
46. Abbreviations and Numbers
47. Italics
48. Hyphens
MLA Documentation
49. The Basics of MLA Style
50. In-Text Citations
51. List of Works Cited
52. A Student Research Essay, MLA style
APA, Chicago, and CSE Documentation
53. APA Style
54. Chicago Style
55. CSE Style
For Multilingual Writers
56. Writing in U.S. Academic Genres
57. Clauses and Sentences
58. Nouns and Noun Phrases
59. Verbs and Verb Phrases
60. Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
Writing in the Disciplines
61. Academic Work in Any Discipline
62. Writing for the Humanities
63. Writing for the Social Sciences
64. Writing for the Natural and Applied Sciences
65. Writing for Business
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.
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