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Table of Contents

Introduction to Teaching with Lunsford Handbooks
PART 1: Your Course
1a  Planning the Course
      Your Writing Course and Your Approach
      Using the Handbook
      Organizing the Course Design
       Feedback and Assessment
       Designing a Portfolio-Based Course
       Figuring Out a Realistic Time Frame
      The First Day and Beyond
1b  Sample Syllabi
      Syllabus 1: The St. Martin’s Handbook
      Syllabus 2: The Everyday Writer
      Syllabus 3: EasyWriter
1c  Designing Effective Assignments
      Aligning Course Learning Outcomes with Assignment
     Objectives
     How to Create Effective Writing Prompts
     Making Assignments Plagiarism-Resistant
     Sequencing Your Assignments and Providing Scaffolding
1d  Sample Assignments
      Assignment 1: Letter
      Assignment 2: Argumentative Essay
      Assignment Template
1e  Responding to Student Writing
      Looking for Strengths in Student Writing
      Know Your Purposes in Responding
      Know Your Role as a Responder
      Understand the Student’s Perspective
      The Realities of the Workload 
      Use Other Types of Feedback
1f  Using a Handbook by Michael Hennessy
     Orienting Students to a Handbook
     Teaching Students to Use a Handbook as a Writing Guide
     Encouraging Students to Use the Handbook beyond
     First-Year Composition
1g Composing Multimodal Texts by Michael Moore
     Using Digital Portfolios for Reflection and Assessment
     Teaching with an e-Book
1h  Using Corpus Linguistic Analysis with First-Year Student
      Writers by Laura L. Aull
      What Is Corpus Linguistic Analysis?
      Why Use Corpus Linguistic Analysis with Students?
      What Can Your Students Do with Corpus Linguistic Analysis?
      What Free Tools Are Available? 
      Analyzing Texts You Choose: Classroom Activity
1i  Working with digital handbook products: LaunchPad, LaunchPad
      Solo, and Writer’s Help 2.0
      Using LaunchPad and LaunchPad Solo
      Diagnostic Tests
      Student Writing
      Videos
      Exercises and LearningCurve
      Top Twenty Editing Practice
      Tutorials
      Grammar Girl Podcasts
      Using Writer’s Help 2.0, Lunsford Version
      A Note about e-books

PART 2: Your Teaching
2a  The Top Twenty: A Quick Guide to Troubleshooting Your Writing
      Overview
      Taking a Writing Inventory
       Learning from Your Errors
       The Top Twenty
       Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
2b  Rhetorical Situations
      Overview
      Understanding Rhetorical Situations
      Understanding Academic Assignments
      Considering Audiences
      Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
2c  Exploring, Planning, and Drafting
      Overview
      Exploring a Topic
     Gathering Information
     Planning
     Drafting
     Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
2d  Paragraphs
      Overview
      Creating Strong Paragraphs
      Writing Unified Paragraphs
      Developing Paragraphs
      Making Paragraphs Coherent
      Linking Paragraphs Together
     Writing Special-Purpose Paragraphs
     Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
2e  Language
     Writing to the World
     Language That Builds Common Ground
     Word Choice
     Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
2f  Argument
     Critical Reading
     Analyzing Arguments
    Constructing Arguments
    Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
2g  Research
     Preparing for a Research Project
     Conducting Research
     Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes
     Integrating Sources into Your Writing
    Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
    Writing a Research Project
    Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
2h  Peer Review, Revision, and Reflection
      Reviewing and Revising
      Editing and Reflecting
      Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
2i  Multimodality
    Thinking about Visuals and Writing for Diverse Media
    Design for Writing
    Online Texts
    Oral and Multimedia Presentations
   Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
2j  Writing in the Disciplines
     Writing in Any Discipline
     Writing for the Humanities
     Writing for the Social Sciences
     Writing for the Natural and Applied Sciences
     Writing for Business
     Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
2k  Writing for the Public
      Overview
      Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks
2l   Helping Multilingual Writers
     Writing in U.S. Academic Contexts
     Clauses and Sentences
     Nouns and Noun Phrases
     Verbs and Verb Phrases
     Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
     Coverage in Lunsford Handbooks

Authors

Andrea A. Lunsford

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, she was Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University (1986-2000) and, before that, Associate Professor and Director of Writing at the University of British Columbia (1977-86) and Associate Professor of English at Hillsborough Community College. A frequent member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, Andrea 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). She holds honorary degrees from Middlebury College and The University of Ôrebro.

Andrea's scholarly interests include the contributions of women and people of color to rhetorical history, theory, and practice; collaboration and collaborative writing, comics/graphic narratives; translanguaging and style, and technologies of writing. She has written or coauthored many books, including Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse; Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing; and Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the History of Rhetoric, as well as numerous chapters and articles. For Bedford/St. Martin’s, she is the author of The St. Martin's Handbook, The Everyday Writer, and EasyWriter; the co-author (with John Ruszkiewicz) of Everything’s an Argument and (with John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters) of Everything’s an Argument with Readings; and the co-author (with Lisa Ede) of Writing Together: Collaboration in Theory and Practice. She is also a regular contributor to the Bits teaching blog on Bedford/St. Martin’s English Community site.

Andrea has given presentations and workshops on the changing nature and scope of writing and critical language awareness at scores of North American universities, served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, as Chair of the Modern Language Association Division on Writing, and as a member of the MLA Executive Council. In her spare time, she serves on the Board of La Casa Roja’s Next Generation Leadership Network, as Chair of the Kronos Quartet Performing Arts Association--and works diligently if not particularly well in her communal organic garden.

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The St. Martin's Handbook (Paper Version)

Andrea A. Lunsford | Ninth Edition | 2021 | ISBN:9781319107536

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