Easy Writer 6th Edition by Andrea Lunsford

EasyWriter with Exercises

Sixth Edition ©2017

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 wri...

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.

EasyWriter with Exercises can be packaged at a significant discount with one of two innovative digital products: Writer's Help 2.0, Lunsford version, or LaunchPad Solo for Lunsford Handbooks.

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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.

EasyWriter with Exercises can be packaged at a significant discount with one of two innovative digital products: Writer's Help 2.0, Lunsford version, or LaunchPad Solo for Lunsford Handbooks.

Andrea Lunsford's advice in a pocket handbook. Andrea's friendly, forward-thinking rhetorical approach starts where students are and shows them the moves they need to master to succeed as effective writers. Her research on what, how, and why students write—from the Top Twenty to the Literacy Revolution—provides a solid foundation for EasyWriter's advice.

Help with all the genres today's students need to master. As college writing (and workplace writing) has expanded to embrace new technologies and genres, Andrea Lunsford is leading the way in giving attention to today's multimodal, participatory genres, such as blogs and web comics, in addition to traditional academic genres such as researched argument. In EasyWriter and its digital resources, you'll find models and advice on more genres of writing than in any other pocket handbook.

Expert answers to students' most common questions. EasyWriter provides information that students can trust—and that they can find without having to wade through mountains  of conflicting information.

A focus on making choices, not on following rules. Andrea Lunsford recognizes that there is no single standard for correctness in writing; instead, effective texts follow conventions that depend on context.

Up-to-date advice on research and documentation. EasyWriter provides information on using both library and Internet sources effectively, tips for avoiding plagiarism, and guidelines for MLA-, APA-, Chicago-, and CSE-style documentation. Help with the "why" as well as the "how" of documentation helps students understand the purpose and uses of different documentation styles.

New to This Edition

Thoroughly revised to reflect the 2016 MLA documentation guidelines. The chapter on MLA style has been carefully updated to include guidelines from the new MLA Handbook, 8th Edition (2016), including MLA's helpful "container" concept. With EasyWriter, students find clear advice for understanding the rationale for documentation as well as many examples to help them apply MLA guidelines to a wide range of sources.

Five expanded chapters on writing processes, including reflection. No other pocket-sized book gives students as much support for all aspects of composing. With separate chapters on rhetorical choices, exploring and drafting, design, reviewing and revising, and reflection, EasyWriter helps students throughout their processes, no matter what kind of text they're creating.

New support for writing even more academic and real-world genres. A new section, "Writing That Works," includes full cahapters on analysis, argument, portfolios, disciplinary writing, presentations, and public writing. Combined, the book and digital resources offer models of more than 40 genres of student work, from researched argument essays to blog posts and presentations.

New support for using writing to learn. A new section on low-stakes writing lays out multiple ways that students can use informal writing to develop thinking, engage with and generate ideas, and collaborate.

Integrated advice on U.S. academic style, grammar, sentence structure, and language choices. Incorporating best practices for second-language writers, information about standard English and expectations for college writing is integrated throughout the text to be more accessible to students of all language backgrounds. (An icon calls out features of English that often cause problems for multilingual writers.)

Digital resources meet students where they're already writing—online.
         ● Writer's Help 2.0, Lunsford version, is a complete writing resource powered by smart search, which means students get the writing help they need even when they aren't familiar with composition terms. It includes robust Lunsford content, along with LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, diagnostics, video prompts, tutorials, and assigning and tracking tools.
         ● LaunchPad Solo for Lunsford Handbooks is a collection of resources, without a full e-book, that provides opportunities for practice and self-study, including exercises, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, video prompts, and more.

"Lunsford is exceptionally clear and accurate. Her style is readable, friendly, and accessible." –David Freeman, Valencia College

"This book is indeed easy to use, and students should love the Top Twenty, the most direct and efficient guide on the market to mastering common challenges in the use of English." --Owen Gilman, St. Joseph's University

"It is a fantastic text." –Mary Seel, SUNY Broome Community College

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.

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