EasyWriter / Edition 6

by Andrea A. Lunsford

Overview

EasyWriter 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 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 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781319050764
Publisher:	Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date:	10/20/2016
Edition description:	Sixth Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Andrea A. Lunsford is the former director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University and teaches at the Bread Loaf School of English. A past chair of CCCC, she has won the major publication awards in both the CCCC and MLA. For Bedford/St. Martin's, she is also the author of The St. Martin's Handbook, The Everyday Writer, and Writing in Action; Everything's an Argument with John Ruszkiewicz; and Everything's an Argument with Readings with John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters. She has never met a student she didn’t like—and she is excited about the possibilities for writers in the “literacy revolution” brought about by today’s technology. She posts regularly on the Macmillan Community site about her teaching, reading, and traveling, and her “Multimodal Mondays” posts offer ideas for introducing low-stakes multimodal assignments to the composition classroom. You can also follow her on Twitter and Facebook.

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