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Writing in Action

First Edition ©2014 Andrea A. Lunsford

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Andrea Lunsford’s research treats student writers as writers first—not only in the classroom, but in every aspect of their lives. Her newest handbook features a simple and inviting design that helps students find solutions for every situation as they translate their skills as writers in their day-to-day lives to the conventions of solid academic writing. Featuring the writing process coverage of larger handbooks at a value price, Writing in Action is a supportive reference that emphasizes rhetorical strategies that help students put their ideas into action.

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Built from Andrea Lunsford’s research on student writers, Writing in Action is a new value-priced handbook—with exercises—that marries extensive coverage of the writing process with the streamlined coverage of grammar, mechanics, punctuation, and documentation of a pocket-sized handbook. A handbook that puts rhetorical choice front and center, Writing in Action begins with what students do well and shows them what they need to learn. Its simple yet inviting design and spiral binding ensures that students will be able to find quick answers and effective strategies for every step of the writing process.

Attention to good writing, not just surface correctness, helps students understand that effective texts follow conventions that depend on their audience, situation, and purpose. Integrated exercises throughout the text help students consider their writing process and practice writing strategies.

Up-to-date advice on research and documentation provides information on using both library and Internet sources effectively, tips for avoiding plagiarism, and guidelines for MLA-, APA-, Chicago-, and CSE-style documentation.

e-Pages with LearningCurve take advantage of what the Web can do. Bedford’s new online adaptive quizzing, integrated into the text, focuses students on the grammar and writing topics that they need the most help with.

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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 Writing to Make Something Happen in the World

WRITING

4 A Writer’s Choices

5 Exploring, Planning, and Drafting

6 Multimodal Assignments

7 Writing in the Disciplines

8 Designing Documents

　

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

LANGUAGE

17 Writing to the World

18 Language that Builds Common Ground

19 Language Variety

20 Word Choice and Spelling

21 Glossary of Usage

SENTENCE GRAMMAR

22 Basic Grammar

23 Verbs

24 Subject-Verb Agreement

25 Adjectives and Adverbs

26 Modifier Placement

27 Pronouns

28 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

29 Sentence Fragments

　

SENTENCE STYLE

30 Consistency and Completeness

31 Coordination and Subordination

32 Conciseness

33 Parallelism

34 Shifts

　

PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS

35 Commas

36 Semicolons

37 End Punctuation

38 Apostrophes

39 Quotation Marks

40 Other Punctuation

41 Capital Letters

42 Abbreviations and Numbers

43 Italics

44 Hyphens

　

MULTILINGUAL WRITERS

45 Sentence Structure

46 Nouns and Noun Phrases

47 Verbs and Verb Phrases

48 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

　　

DOCUMENTATION

49 MLA Style

50 APA Style

51　Chicago　Style

52 CSE Style

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.

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Answer Key for Supplemental Exercises for Writing in Action