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The Everyday Writer with Exercises

Autor Andrea A. Lunsford
en Limba Engleză Spirală – 15 apr 2016
Contexts for writing keep changing, and Andrea Lunsford knows that every writer needs to engage with audiences and communicate ideas every day. The Everyday Writer with Exercises shows novice writers how to navigate rhetorical situations and make effective choices everywhere they write. The illustrations, by Eisner Award nominee GB Tran, offer a high-interest approach to writing processes and encourage students to open and use their handbook. And Andrea's friendly voice is always front and center, ready to answer any question. With new and expanded coverage of presentations and multimodal projects, integrated advice for writers from all language and educational backgrounds, and help learning the moves that make expert writers credible, The Everyday Writer with Exercises is the encouraging guide students need to take their writing to the next level.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781319027049
ISBN-10: 1319027040
Pagini: 704
Dimensiuni: 168 x 213 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Ediția:6Nouă
Editura: Bedford/St. Martin's
Colecția Bedford/St. Martin’s
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Writing Processes

1. The Top Twenty: A Quick Guide to Troubleshooting Your Writing 2. Expectations for College Writing 3. Writing Situations 4. Exploring Ideas 5. Planning and Drafting 6. Developing Paragraphs 7. Reviewing, Revising, and Editing 8. Reflecting

Critical Thinking and Argument

9. Critical Reading 10. Analyzing Arguments 11. Constructing Arguments

Research

12. Preparing for a Research Project 13. Doing Research 14. Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes 15. Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism 16. Writing a Research Project

Academic, Professional, and Public Writing

17. Academic Work in Any Discipline 18. Writing for the Humanities 19. Writing for the Social Sciences 20. Writing for the Natural and Applied Sciences 21. Writing for Business 22. Making Design Decisions 23. Creating Presentations 24. Communicating in Other Media 25. Writing to Make Something Happen in the World

Language

26. Writing to the World 27. Language That Builds Common Ground 28. Language Variety 29. Word Choice and Spelling

Style

30. Coordination, Subordination, and Emphasis 31. Consistency and Completeness 32. Parallelism 33. Shifts 34. Conciseness 35. Sentence Variety

Sentence Grammar

36. Parts of Speech 37. Parts of Sentences 38. Verbs and Verb Phrases 39. Nouns and Noun Phrases 40. Subject-Verb Agreement 41. Pronouns 42. Adjectives and Adverbs 43. Modifier Placement 44. Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases 45. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences 46. Sentence Fragments

Punctuation and Mechanics

47. Commas 48. Semicolons 49. End Punctuation 50. Apostrophes 51. Quotation Marks 52. Other Punctuation Marks 53. Capital Letters 54. Abbreviations and Numbers 55. Italics 56. Hyphens

MLA Documentation

57. The basics of MLA style 58. MLA Style for In-Text Citations 59. MLA Style for a List of Works Cited 60. A Student Research Essay, MLA style

APA Documentation

61. The basics of APA Style 62. APA style for in-text citations 63. APA style for a list of references 64. A student research essay, APA style

Chicago Documentation

65. The basics of Chicago style 66. Chicago style for notes and bibliographic entries 67. A student research essay, Chicago style

Glossaries and Index

Glossary of usage Index with glossary of terms

Notă biografică

Andrea A. Lunsford is an emerita professor of English and former Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. She currently teaches at the Bread Loaf School of English.

Caracteristici

Attractive, easy-to-read text and illustrated design helps students to engage with the text
Accessible coverage of the academic styles used in universities, with added content on APA and Chicago styles
New and expanded coverage of presentations and multimodal projects such as blogs
Features new research-based tips and expert academic writing techniques from an experienced author

Caracteristici noi

Rhetorical advice helps students navigate multimodal assignments that research shows are increasingly common in academic contexts - Web content, wikis, presentations, blogs, PechaKucha, and more - and engage effectively with audiences in interactive digital landscapes.Integrated advice on U.S. academic style, grammar, sentence structure, and language choices incorporates best practices for second-language writers by making information about standard English and expectations for college writing accessible to students of all language backgrounds. (An icon calls out features of English that often cause problems for multilingual writers.)

A visual guide shows how other students find handbook help.
Seven real students’ stories appear in a comic insert, "True Tales of The Everyday Writer," to suggest the kinds of help available in this handbook and to encourage students to explore the book when they need to find answers. New research-based tips on writing moves that experts make to establish authority give students the information they need to enhance their own credibility as academic writers.

A focus on reflection
calls for students not just to think carefully before and during the writing process, but also to look back on completed projects to analyze what worked and what didn’t. Expanded, accessible coverage of the documentation styles used most often in college, with added attention to APA and Chicago styles.Digital components highlight student voices and encourage reflection and self-study. Digital tools encourage students to engage with and take ownership of their own writing. Content designed to work with The Everyday Writer includes video prompts, activities for working with student model writing in manu genres, tutorials, adaptive quizzing, diagnostics, and more. Contact your sales representative to find out about options.

Descriere

The Everyday Writer with Exercises is the accessible guide students need to improve their writing style and make the right rhetorical choices to ensure it is effective in a variety of situations.