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Writing in Action
First Edition| ©2014 Andrea A. Lunsford
PACKAGE THIS TITLE WITH OUR 2016 MLA SUPPLEMENT, Documenting Sources in MLA Style (package ISBN-13: 9781319084868). Get the most recent updates on MLA citation in a convenient, 40-page resource based on The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition, with plenty of models. Browse our catalog or contact your repre...
PACKAGE THIS TITLE WITH OUR 2016 MLA SUPPLEMENT, Documenting Sources in MLA Style (package ISBN-13: 9781319084868). Get the most recent updates on MLA citation in a convenient, 40-page resource based on The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition, with plenty of models. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN.
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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PACKAGE THIS TITLE WITH OUR 2016 MLA SUPPLEMENT, Documenting Sources in MLA Style (package ISBN-13: 9781319084868). Get the most recent updates on MLA citation in a convenient, 40-page resource based on The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition, with plenty of models. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN.
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.Features
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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Writing in Action
First Edition| ©2014
Andrea A. Lunsford
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Writing in Action
First Edition| 2014
Andrea A. Lunsford
Table of Contents
WRITING FOR COLLEGE AND BEYOND1 The Top Twenty: A Quick Guide to Troubleshooting Your Writing2 Expectations for College Writing3 Writing to Make Something Happen in the WorldWRITING4 A Writer’s Choices5 Exploring, Planning, and Drafting6 Multimodal Assignments7 Writing in the Disciplines 8 Designing Documents CRITICAL THINKING AND ARGUMENT9 Critical Reading10 Analyzing Arguments11 Constructing ArgumentsRESEARCH12 Preparing for a Research Project13 Doing Research14 Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes15 Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism16 Writing a Research ProjectLANGUAGE17 Writing to the World18 Language that Builds Common Ground19 Language Variety20 Word Choice and Spelling21 Glossary of UsageSENTENCE GRAMMAR22 Basic Grammar23 Verbs24 Subject-Verb Agreement25 Adjectives and Adverbs26 Modifier Placement27 Pronouns28 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences29 Sentence Fragments SENTENCE STYLE30 Consistency and Completeness31 Coordination and Subordination32 Conciseness33 Parallelism34 Shifts PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS35 Commas36 Semicolons37 End Punctuation38 Apostrophes39 Quotation Marks40 Other Punctuation41 Capital Letters42 Abbreviations and Numbers43 Italics44 Hyphens MULTILINGUAL WRITERS45 Sentence Structure46 Nouns and Noun Phrases47 Verbs and Verb Phrases48 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases DOCUMENTATION49 MLA Style50 APA Style51 Chicago Style52 CSE StyleAuthors

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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