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Everyday Writer 3RD Edition

by Andrea A Lunsford

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Publisher Comments:

Always attentive to the realities of the classroom — including emerging technologies — The Everyday Writer remains a truly practical and accessible tabbed reference handbook. Informed by Andrea Lunsford’s research and written in clear, straightforward language that students can understand, the third edition gives quick and simple advice for reading images and writing texts — every day.

About the Author

ANDREA A. LUNSFORD is professor of English at Stanford University and also 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. She is the author of The St. Martin's Handbook, Fifth Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003), EasyWriter, Second Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002), The Presence of Others, Fourth Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004), Everything's an Argument, Third Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004), and Everything's an Argument with Readings, Third Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004) with John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters.

Table of Contents

LEARNING FROM COMMON ERRORS

  1. Broad Content Issues

  2. Organization and Presentation

  3. The Twenty Most Common Errors

    

COMPOSING IN A DIGITAL AGE

  4. Writing and Its Rhetorical Situations

  *5. Thinking Visually

  6. Exploring Ideas

  7. Drafting

  8. Constructing Strong Paragraphs

  9. Revising and Editing

  *10. Analyzing Verbal and Visual Arguments

  11. Constructing Arguments

    STUDENT ESSAY

    

FOCUSING ON DESIGN AND MEDIA

  *12. Writing with Computers: The Basics

  13. Designing Documents

    SAMPLE DOCUMENTS

  14. Creating Web Texts

    SAMPLE WEB SITES

  15. Making Oral and Multimedia Presentations

    SAMPLE PRESENTATION SLIDES

    

CONDUCTING RESEARCH

  16. Preparing for a Research Project

  17. Doing Research

  18. Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes

  *19. Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism

  20. Writing a Research Project

    

SENTENCE STYLE

  21. Consistency and Completeness

  22. Coordination and Subordination

  23. Parallelism

  24. Shifts

  25. Emphasis

  26. Conciseness

  27. Sentence Variety

    

SENTENCE GRAMMAR

  28. Basic Grammar

  29. Verbs

  30. Subject-Verb Agreement

  31. Adjectives and Adverbs

  32. Modifier Placement

  33. Pronouns

  34. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

  35. Sentence Fragments

    

LANGUAGE/GLOSSARY OF USAGE

  36. Writing to the World

  37. Language That Builds Common Ground

  38. Language Variety

  39. Diction

  40. Spelling

  41. Glossary of Usage

    

PUNCTUATION/MECHANICS

  42. Commas

  43. Semicolons

  44. End Punctuation

  45. Apostrophes

  46. Quotation Marks

  47. Other Punctuation

  48. Capitalization

  49. Abbreviations and Numbers

  50. Italics

  51. Hyphens

    

MLA DOCUMENTATION

  52. In-text Citations

  53. Explanatory and Bibliographic Notes

  54. List of Works Cited

  55. STUDENT ESSAY, MLA Style

    

APA, CSE, AND CHICAGO DOCUMENTATION

  56. APA Style

    STUDENT ESSAY

  57. CSE Style

    STUDENT SAMPLE PAGES

  58. Chicago Style

    STUDENT SAMPLE PAGES

    

WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES

  *59. Learning to Write in Any Discipline

  *60. Writing for Literature and the Other Humanities

    STUDENT ESSAY

  *61. Writing for the Social Sciences and the Natural Sciences

  62. Writing for Business

    SAMPLE DOCUMENTS

    

FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS

  *63. U.S. Academic Conventions

  64. Nouns and Noun Phrases

  65. Verbs and Verb Phrases

  66. Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

  67. Clauses and Sentences

    

  Index

  Student Writing Directory

  Index for Multilingual Writers

  Advice for Considering Disabilities

  Revision Symbols

Product Details

ISBN:
9780312413231
Author:
Lunsford, Andrea A
Publisher:
Bedford Books
Author:
Lunsford, Andrea A.
Subject:
Grammar
Subject:
English language
Subject:
Rhetoric
Subject:
Report writing
Subject:
Composition & Creative Writing
Subject:
Composition & Creative Writing - General
Subject:
Grammar & Punctuation
Subject:
English language -- Rhetoric.
Subject:
English language -- Grammar.
Copyright:
Edition Number:
3
Publication Date:
November 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
576
Dimensions:
8.04x6.90x1.00 in. 1.42 lbs.

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