Full Description
A little handbook offering reliable, easy-to-find writing advice for university and beyond, in an easy to use and affordable format. Andrea Lunsford meets students where they 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.Suitable for students looking to focus their writing or those looking for a pocket-sized quick reference, this book will help students make effective choices for academic work and understand the conventions of formal written English.
Contents
Quick Start Menu.- How This Book Can Help You.- WRITING PROCESSES.- 1 A Writer's Choices.- 2 Exploring, Planning, and Drafting.- 3 Making Design Decisions.- 4 Reviewing, Revising, and Editing.- Top Twenty Tips for Editing Your Writing.- 5 Sharing and Reflecting on Your Writing.- CONTEXTS FOR READING, WRITING, AND SPEAKING.- 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.- RESEARCH.- 11 Conducting Research.- 12 Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes.- 13 Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism.- 14 Writing a Research Project.- DOCUMENTATION.- 15 MLA Style.- 16 APA Style.- 17 Chicago Style.- 18 CSE Style.- STYLE: EFFECTIVE LANGUAGE.- 19 Writing across Cultures and Communities.- 20 Language That Builds Common Ground.- 21 Varieties of Language.- 22 Word Choice.- STYLE: EFFECTIVE SENTENCES.- 23 Varying Sentences.- 24 Consistency, Completeness, and Effectiveness.- 25 Coordination and Subordination.- 26 Conciseness.- 27 Parallelism.- 28 Shifts.- GRAMMAR.- 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.- PUNCTUATION/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.- Glossary of Usage.- Index/Glossary of Terms.- Revision Symbols.- For Multilingual Writers.- Detailed Table of Contents.
