EasyWriter with Exercises
7th Edition
Published on 26. July 2019
Book
Spiral bound
448 pages
978-1-319-15241-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 afford. Andrea Lunsford meets students where there are with friendly advice, research-based tips for solving the Top Twenty writing problems, and an emphasis on making effective rhetorical choices. The seventh edition puts even more emphasis on empowering students to become critical thinkers and ethical communicators with new advice about fact checking and evaluating sources and more advice about choosing language that builds common ground. In addition, the seventh edition offers more support for writing in a variety of disciplines and genres and more models of student writing to help students make effective choices in any context.
More details
Edition
7th ed. 2019
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Macmillan Learning
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
448 p.
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
ISBN-13
978-1-319-15241-3 (9781319152413)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Andrea A. Lunsford
EasyWriter with Exercises
Book
07/2017
6th Edition
Bedford/Saint Martin's
€33.16
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Person
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
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
Content
1. Writer's Choices.- 2. Exploring, Planning, and Drafting.- 3 Making Design Decisions.- 4 Reviewing, Revising, and Editing.- 5 Sharing and Reflecting on Your Writing.- 6 Learning from Low-Stakes Writing.- 7 Reading and Listening Analytically, Critically, and Respectfully.- 8 Arguing Ethically and Persuasively.- 9 Writing in a Variety of Disciplines and Genres.- 10 Creating Presentations.- 11 Conducting Research.- 12 Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes.- 13 Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism.- 14 Writing a Research Project.- 15 MLA Style.- 16 APA Style.- 17 Chicago Style.- 18 CSE Style.- 19 Writing across Cultures and Communities.- 20 Language That Builds Common Ground.- 21 Varieties of Language.- 22 Word Choice.- 23 Varying Sentences.- 24 Consistency, Completeness, and Effectiveness.- 25 Coordination and Subordination.- 26 Conciseness.- 27 Parallelism.- 28 Shifts.- 29 Verbs and Verb Phrases.- 30 Nouns and Noun Phrases.- 31 Subject-Verb Agreement.- 32 Adjectives and Adverbs.- 33 Modifier Placement.- 34 Pronouns.- 35 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases.- 36 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences.- 37 Sentence Fragments.- 38 Commas.- 39 Semicolons.- 40 End Punctuation.- 41 Apostrophes.- 42 Quotation Marks.- 43 Other Punctuation.- 44 Capital Letters.- 45 Abbreviations and Numbers.- 46 Italics.- 47 Hyphens.