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How to Write Anything with 2020 APA Update

A Guide and ReferenceFourth Edition ©2019 John J. Ruszkiewicz; Jay T. Dolmage

Instructors at hundreds of colleges and universities have turned to How to Write Anything for clear, focused writing advice that gives students just what they need, when they need it. And students love it—because John Ruszkiewicz’s tone makes writing in any genre approachable, with a flexible...
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How to Write Anything with 2020 APA Update by John J. Ruszkiewicz; Jay T. Dolmage - Fourth Edition, 2019 from Macmillan Student Store

A guide and reference for any writing situation

Instructors at hundreds of colleges and universities have turned to How to Write Anything for clear, focused writing advice that gives students just what they need, when they need it. And students love it—because John Ruszkiewicz’s tone makes writing in any genre approachable, with a flexible, rhetorical framework for a range of common academic and real-world genres, and a reference with extra support for writing, research, design, style, and grammar.

The new edition is accompanied and enhanced by LaunchPad for How to Write Anything, an online course space of pre-built units featuring the full e-text, multimodal readings, and adaptive LearningCurve activities to help students hone their understanding of reading and writing. The new edition also gives students more support for writing portfolios, more help working with the concept of genre, and more emphasis on critical reading and writing—all essential to academic success. And you’ll find more teaching ideas and syllabi from the community of teachers led by coauthor Jay Dolmage. The result is everything you need to teach composition in a flexible and highly visual guide and reference.

Features

Accessible approach encourages students to analyze their own situations and processes. How to Write Anything recognizes that no two students work the same way—and that students write for different reasons in different situations, from essays for a college course to résumés for job applications. Intuitive cross-references in the Guide suggest targeted topics in the Reference, giving students the help they need when and where they need it.

  • "How to Start" questions at the beginning of genre chapters give students options for getting started, even when they’re stuck.
  • A flexible sequence of rhetorical choices gives students a strong framework for working in any genre. In Part One they’ll find genre-specific advice about exploring purpose and topic, audience, finding and developing material, structure, style, and design.
  • "Your Turn" activities give students more help applying the advice in the book and let students try out genres and strategies before tackling a complete assignment.

"How To" visual tutorials and videos offer "clear, concise, and visual guidance" on challenging topics, such as showing students step by step how to find information in a source to create a citation.

Professional models and student writing serve as both examples and springboards for discussion and exploration. Selections are carefully chosen both to engage students and to show how genres change in response to different contexts and audiences. Annotations show how the readings illustrate key principles, patterns of compositions, and points of style and mechanics.

Practical support for a community of instructors is available for all instructors teaching with How to Write Anything. Written by coauthor Jay Dolmage, the Instructor’s Manual offers activities, assignments, sample syllabi, correlations to the WPA outcomes, and more. At Bedford Bits, (bedfordstmartins.com/bits), you’ll find posts by Jay Dolmage and conversation about teaching the text.

New to This Edition

A new introduction establishes the book’s rhetorical framework and makes the concept of genre easy to understand. In response to instructor and student feedback, the book now begins by showing how genre (and subgenre) works and serves as an invitation to write across a wide variety of genres. With a focus on audience, structure, and style, the chapter highlights the importance of rhetorical context.

New activities help students use the best strategies for their writing. New Reading the Genre activities in the Guide help students analyze the relationship between genre and content in professional and student writing, while Genre Moves, a new annotated model in the Reader, uses classic essays to illustrate successful writing strategies.

A new chapter on writing portfolios encourages students to reflect on their own processes as they curate collections of their work. With a careful consideration of audience and a model reflective statement, this chapter helps students think about their work in a meaningful way and consciously apply their best learning strategies to their work in other courses.

New readings on high-interest topics and in genres that challenge students to try something new. With a focus on student-friendly and accessible topics, selections often have a surprising element (such as a comic on depression by Allie Brosh). New voices include Matt Bors with a visual argument about millennials, Allegra Goodman with a literacy narrative, Zadie Smith with an in-depth textual analysis, Patton Oswalt on pop culture, and Jane McGonigal on how gaming can improve your life. Online multimodal readings include a proposal on school lunches by Michael Pollan.

Get the most out of your course with LaunchPad. LaunchPad combines an interactive e-book with high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment options, including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. Pre-built, curated units are easy to assign or adapt with your own material, such as readings, videos, quizzes, discussion groups, and more. LaunchPad also provides access to a gradebook that provide a clear window on performance for your whole class, for individual students, and for individual assignments. While a streamlined interface helps students focus on what’s due next, social commenting tools let them engage, make connections, and learn from each other. Use LaunchPad on its own or integrate it with your school’s learning management system so your class is always on the same page. Contact your rep to make sure you have access.

"I was concerned it might be too general, trying to be all things to all disciplines. How to Write Anything? But, students tell me they use it to help with assignments in other classes. I had a remarkable number who told me that they were going to hang onto their books, not sell them back to the bookstore." -Karin Rhodes, Salem State University

"How to Write Anything has completely surpassed my expectations. It is visually appealing, nicely organized, and covers a wide variety of modes and topics, which is important to professors in my department for planning purposes. Students have commented that they enjoy reading it." - Hailey Sheets, Southwestern Michigan College

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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

GUIDE

Part 1  
Strategies for College Writing
1 Academic Goals and Expectations
2 Defining Genres and Purpose
3 Claiming Topics
4 Imagining Audiences
5 Gathering Materials
6 Organizing Ideas
7 Choosing Style and Design

Part 2  
Key Academic Genres
8 Reports
9 Explanations
10 Arguments
11 Evaluations
12 Proposals
13 Literary Analyses
14 Rhetorical Analyses
15 Essays
  
Part 3  
Special College Assignments
16 Essay Examinations
17 Annotated Bibliographies
18 Synthesis Papers
19 Position Papers
20 Oral Reports
21 Professional Correspondence
22 Résumés
23 Personal Statements
24 Writing Portfolios

REFERENCE

Part 4  
A Writer’s Routines
25 Smart Reading
26 Critical Thinking
27 Shaping a Thesis
28 Strategies of Development
29 Outlining
30 Revising, Editing, and Proofreading
31 Peer Editing
32 Overcoming Writer’s Block

Part 5   
Style
33 Levels of Style
34 Clear and Vigorous Writing
35 Inclusive Writing
36 Purposeful Paragraphs
37 Strategic Transitions
38 Memorable Openings and Closings
39 Informative Titles

Part 6 
Design and Digital Media
40 Understanding Digital Media
41 Tables, Graphs, and Infographics
42 Designing Print and Online Documents

Part 7  
Academic Research and Sources
43 Beginning Research
44 Consulting Experts
45 Finding Print and Online Sources
46 Evaluating Sources
47 Doing Field Research
48 Annotating Sources
49 Summarizing Sources
50 Paraphrasing Sources
51 Incorporating Sources into Your Work
52 Documenting Sources

Part 8  
Handbook
53 MLA Documentation and Format
54 APA Documentation and Format
55 Grammar
56 Mechanics
57 Sentence Issues
58 Troublesome Pairs

John J. Ruszkiewicz

John J. Ruszkiewicz is a professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin where he taught literature, rhetoric, and writing for forty years. A winner of the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award, he was instrumental in creating the Department of Rhetoric and Writing in 1993 and directed the unit from 2001-05. He has also served as president of the Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE) of Texas, which gave him its Frances Hernández Teacher—Scholar Award in 2012. For Bedford/St. Martin's, he is coauthor, with Andrea Lunsford, of Everything’s An Argument and the author of How To Write Anything and A Reader's Guide to College Writing. In retirement, he writes mystery novels under the pen name J.J. Rusz, his first The Window Trail, published in July on Amazon.

Jay T. Dolmage

Jay Dolmage is an assistant professor of English at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of Instructor's Manual for How to Write Anything and the coauthor of How to Write Anything: A Guide and Reference with Readings (with John J. Ruszkiewicz) and Disability and the Teaching of Writing (with Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Brenda Jo Brueggemann). He is the coeditor, with Nedra Reynolds, of the new Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing.  He teaches graduate classes in rhetoric and composition pedagogy and has published widely on rhetorical theory and accessible teaching. To hear Jay talk about the readings in How to Write Anything, watch the Bedford/St. Martin’s “Author Talk” video.

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