Synopses & Reviews
Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. Students write every day and everywhere — for school, for work, and for fun. And nobody else in the field of composition understands the real world of student writing better than Andrea A. Lunsford. Her trademark attention to rhetorical choice, language and style, and critical thinking and argument — based on years of experience as a researcher and classroom teacher — make The Everyday Writer
the tabbed handbook that can talk students through every writing situation. But wait — theres more! New research into student writing now informs every page of the new edition…and with expanded, more visual coverage of the writing process, research and documentation, and writing in the disciplines, todays Everyday Writer
prepares students more than ever for everyday writing challenges — from managing a research project to writing on a Facebook wall.
The Everyday Writer with Exercises is now available, too.
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. For Bedford/St. Martins she is also the author of The St. Martin's Handbook, Sixth Edition, and EasyWriter, Third Edition; The Presence of Others, Fifth Edition, and Everything's an Argument, Fourth Edition, with John Ruszkiewicz; and Everything's an Argument (with Readings), Fourth Edition, with John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters.
Table of Contents
About College Writing
1. The Top Twenty: A Quick Guide to Troubleshooting Your Writing 2. Expectations for College Writing 3. Oral and Multimedia Assignments 4. Design for College Writing
The Writing Process 5. Writing Situations 6. Exploring Ideas 7. Planning and Drafting 8. Developing Paragraphs 9. Reviewing and Revising 10. Editing and Reflecting
Critical Thinking and Argument 11. Critical Reading 12. Analyzing Arguments 13. Constructing Arguments
Research 14. Preparing for a Research Project 15. Doing Research 16. Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes 17. Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism 18. Writing a Research Project Language 19. Writing to the World 20. Language That Builds Common Ground 21. Language Variety 22. Word Choice and Spelling 23. Glossary of Usage
Sentence Style 24. Coordination, Subordination, and Emphasis 25. Consistency and Completeness 26. Parallelism 27. Shifts 28. Conciseness 29. Sentence Variety
Sentence Grammar 30. Basic Grammar 31. Verbs 32. Subject-Verb Agreement 33. Pronouns 34. Adjectives and Adverbs 35. Modifier Placement 36. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences 37. Sentence Fragments
Punctuation and Mechanics 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
MLA Documentation 48. MLA Style for In-Text Citations 49. Explanatory and Bibliographic Notes 50. List of Works Cited 51. Student Essay, MLA style
APA, Chicago, and CSE Documentation 52. APA Style 53. Chicago Style 54. CSE Style
For Multilingual Writers 55. Writing in U.S. Academic Genres 56. Clauses and Sentences 57. Nouns and Noun Phrases 58. Verbs and Verb Phrases 59. Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
Writing in the Disciplines 60. Academic Work in Any Discipline 61. Writing for the Humanities 62. Writing for the Social Sciences 63. Writing for the Natural and Applied Sciences 64. Writing for Business