Writer's Help 2.0, Lunsford Version (Twelve-Month Access) by Andrea A. Lunsford - Second Edition, 2015 from Macmillan Student Store

Writer's Help 2.0, Lunsford Version (Twelve-Month Access)

Second Edition ©2015 Andrea A. Lunsford

Writing well is critical to college success. During your years in college, you will be asked to write in multiple genres and for a wide range of purposes, audiences, and contexts. You need an easy-to-use resource that can help you find what you’re looking for. Enter Writer’s Help, a powerf...

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Andrea Lunsford’s smart advice—now with Writer’s Help’s smart search

Writing well is critical to college success. During your years in college, you will be asked to write in multiple genres and for a wide range of purposes, audiences, and contexts. You need an easy-to-use resource that can help you find what you’re looking for. Enter Writer’s Help, a powerful online resource with "the simplicity and usability of Google," according to one student user, but with the instruction that free online resources lack. Its trusted content, from noted composition researcher Andrea Lunsford, helps you whether you are searching for writing advice on your own or working on an assignment. Its tools, built around a smart search that recognizes non-expert terminology, are as simple as they are innovative.　

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Smart search. We asked 1,600 students how they use references and how they search for help with writing problems. We built the smart search with their responses in mind—Writer's Help gives reliable results even when students aren’t familiar with composition terms and instead use terms like flow, point, or getting unstuck. It also responds to broad search terms like research and to common teacher comments like need more details. With 80,000 students now using Writer’s Help, we can build on their practices and experiences to improve the search even more.


Trusted content from Andrea Lunsford. Writer’s Help for Lunsford Handbooks grows out of the handbooks by Andrea A. Lunsford, one of the country’s foremost experts on rhetoric and composition. As a teacher with decades of experience with students from high school to graduate school, she knows what students are doing well — and what they need to learn in order to succeed.

  • Attention to good writing, not just surface correctness, to help students understand that rhetorically effective texts follow conventions that depend on context.

  • A thorough introduction to academic and professional writing,　with detailed coverage of critical thinking and argument, research, documentation guidelines, and more.

  • Unique coverage of language, with practical advice to help students communicate effectively across cultures — and to use varieties of language both wisely and well.

  • Advice on adapting rhetorical moves from informal to formal writing and from academic to public writing, so students can recognize and build on what they already know.

  • Assignable modules make it easy to integrate Writer’s Help into your course.

Separate sections or courses that are easy to assign and manage. Instructors using Writer’s Help can easily assign reading or activities from the handbook with clear due dates and expectations. Recording grades and tracking progress—by student or by class—is simple with the Writer’s Help platform. Writer's Help also lets you create copies of your course, so you don't have to start from scratch each semester or for each section. 　

Adaptive exercises that engage students. Writer’s Help includes LearningCurve, game-like online quizzing that adapts to what students already know and helps them focus on what they need to learn. Links to pages in Writer’s Help provide support for students as they work through grammar and writing topics, including topics for multilingual writers.

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Table of Contents

Writing for College and Beyond

1. The Top Twenty: A Quick Guide to Troubleshooting Your Writing

2. Expectations for College Writing

3. Multimodal Assignments

4. Writing to Make Something Happen in the World


The Writing Process

5. Rhetorical Situations

6. Exploring Ideas

7. Planning and Drafting

8. Developing Paragraphs

9. Making Design Decisions

10. Reviewing and Revising

11. Editing and Reflecting


Critical Thinking and Argument

12. Critical Reading

13. Analyzing Arguments

14. Constructing Arguments


Research

15. Preparing for a Research Project

16. Doing Research

17. Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes

18. Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism

19. Writing a Research Project


Language

20. Writing to the World

21. Language That Builds Common Ground

22. Language Variety

23. Word Choice and Spelling

24. Glossary of Usage


Sentence Style

25. Coordination, Subordination, and Emphasis

26. Consistency and Completeness

27. Parallelism

28. Shifts

29. Conciseness

30. Sentence Variety


Sentence Grammar

31. Basic Grammar

32. Verbs

33. Subject-Verb Agreement

34. Pronouns

35. Adjectives and Adverbs

36. Modifier Placement

37. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

38. Sentence Fragments

Punctuation/Mechanics

39. Commas

40. Semicolons

41. End Punctuation

42. Apostrophes

43. Quotation Marks

44. Other Punctuation Marks

45. Capital Letters

46. Abbreviations and Numbers

47. Italics

48. Hyphens

 

MLA Documentation

49. The Basics of MLA Style

50. In-Text Citations

51. List of Works Cited

52. A Student Research Essay, MLA style

 

APA, Chicago, and CSE Documentation

53. APA Style

54.　Chicago　Style

55. CSE Style

 

For Multilingual Writers

56. Writing in U.S. Academic Genres

57. Clauses and Sentences

58. Nouns and Noun Phrases

59. Verbs and Verb Phrases

60. Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases


Writing in the Disciplines

61. Academic Work in Any Discipline

62. Writing for the Humanities

63. Writing for the Social Sciences

64. Writing for the Natural and Applied Sciences

65. Writing for Business

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, Lunsford was Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University (1986-2000). She has also been Associate Professor and Director of Writing at the University of British Columbia (1977-86). Currently a member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, Professor Lunsford 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).

Professor Lunsford's scholarly interests include contemporary rhetorical theory, women and the history of rhetoric, collaboration and collaborative writing, current cultures of writing, intellectual property and composing, 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, EasyWriter, and Writing in Action; 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.

Professor Lunsford has conducted workshops on writing and program reviews at dozens 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.