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The St. Martin's Handbook with 2016 MLA update
Eighth Edition| ©2018New Edition Available Andrea A. Lunsford
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Andrea Lunsford’s comprehensive advice in The St. Martin’s Handbook with 2016 MLA Update, Eighth Edition, supports students as they move from informal, social writing to both effective academic writing and to writing that can change the world.
Based on Andrea’s groundbreaking research on the literacy revolution, this teachable handbook shows students how to reflect on the writing skills they already have and put them to use both in traditional academic work and in multimodal projects like blog posts, websites, and presentations. Integrated advice on U.S. academic genres and language follows best practices for helping students from both international and native-speaker backgrounds improve their understanding of academic English.
Throughout The St. Martin’s Handbook with 2016 MLA Update, Andrea Lunsford encourages all of today’s students to learn everything they need to communicate effectively with the diverse people sharing their classrooms, workspaces, and civic lives.
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The comprehensive handbook for the literacy revolution
THIS TITLE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE 2016 MLA UPDATES! Our editorial team has updated this text based on content from The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition. 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 comprehensive advice in The St. Martin’s Handbook with 2016 MLA Update, Eighth Edition, supports students as they move from informal, social writing to both effective academic writing and to writing that can change the world.
Based on Andrea’s groundbreaking research on the literacy revolution, this teachable handbook shows students how to reflect on the writing skills they already have and put them to use both in traditional academic work and in multimodal projects like blog posts, websites, and presentations. Integrated advice on U.S. academic genres and language follows best practices for helping students from both international and native-speaker backgrounds improve their understanding of academic English.
Throughout The St. Martin’s Handbook with 2016 MLA Update, Andrea Lunsford encourages all of today’s students to learn everything they need to communicate effectively with the diverse people sharing their classrooms, workspaces, and civic lives.
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Andrea Lunsford gives students credit for all the skills they’ve developed from social and informal writing, and she has thoroughly revised and updated The St. Martin’s Handbook to help students transfer those skills to today’s academic writing and research projects—from traditional print-based genres to Web-based texts and presentations.
Andrea Lunsford’s broad and deep research provides the groundwork for a comprehensive handbook that helps teachers teach and helps students find answers on their own.
A rhetorical approach shows that there is no single "correct" way to write—instead, effective writers make good choices for the situation.
A focus on reflection helps students engage with writing and transfer skills more effectively from one context to another.
Support for teachers includes advice and activities in Teaching with Lunsford Handbooks--plus Andrea’s weekly "Teacher to Teacher" blog and "Multimodal Mondays" assignment ideas on Bedford Bits.
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A new approach to U.S. academic English integrates the advice all students need. International students and Generation 1.5 English speakers aren’t the only students puzzled by English structures and academic genres. The St. Martin’s Handbook’s advice for multilingual writers comes from expert contributors Paul Kei Matsuda and Christine Tardy, and coverage of these topics is integrated throughout the Eighth Edition, making the information accessible to students from all language and educational backgrounds.
Focused, practical advice helps students make effective rhetorical choices in multimodal projects increasingly in demand in composition courses. Andrea’s conversations with instructors nationwide show that students engage eagerly with the many new kinds of academic projects they are asked to create--from blogs and wikis to presentations and PechaKuchas--but that they still need help composing such work for academic audiences.
Integrated, interactive, assignable digital content in LaunchPad takes advantage of all the Web can do, offering videos of student writers with prompts asking students to reflect on their own writing, texts by student writers in multiple genres with activities for analysis, and LearningCurve adaptive quizzing.
Connect/Create/Reflect assignments in most chapters make the handbook teachable and help students learn to answer their own questions.
Videos teach students what the handbook is for and how to use it.
"I like it because it emphasizes good writing rather than mistakes."
Linda Van Buskirk, Cornell University"A handbook that is truly complete. It is also very versatile."
Jeff Harris, Somerset Community College"This book treats students as practicing writers…. I think this respect says quite a bit about the goals of the textbook, and I think students appreciate that respect."
Nathan Serfling, South Dakota State UniversityThe St. Martin's Handbook is the most practical handbook I have found and used in my 30+ years of teaching. The best information I can give is that my students keep it.
Sherry Forkum, Santa Rosa Junior College

The St. Martin's Handbook with 2016 MLA update
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Andrea A. Lunsford
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Table of Contents
PART ONE—The Art and Craft of Writing
1. Expectations for College Writing
2. Rhetorical Situations
3. Exploring, Planning, and Drafting
4. Reviewing, Revising, and Editing
5. Developing Paragraphs
6. Working with Others
PART TWO—Critical Thinking and Argument
7. Reading Critically
8. Analyzing Arguments
9. Constructing Arguments
PART THREE—Doing Research and Using Sources
10. Preparing for a Research Project
11. Conducting Research
12. Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes
13. Integrating Sources into Your Writing
14. Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
15. Writing a Research Project
PART FOUR—Designing and Performing Writing
16. Design for Writing
17. Oral and Multimedia Presentations
18. Communicating in Other Media
PART FIVE—Academic and Professional Writing
19. Academic Work in Any Discipline
21. Writing for the Social Sciences
22. Writing for the Natural and Applied Sciences
23. Writing for Business
24. Essay Examinations
25. Portfolios
26. Writing to Make Something Happen in the World
PART SIX—Effective Language
27. Writing to the World
28. Language That Builds Common Ground
29. Language Variety
30. Word Choice
31. Dictionaries, Vocabulary, and Spelling
PART SEVEN—Documenting Sources
32. MLA Style
33. APA Style
34. Chicago Style
35. CSE Style
PART EIGHT—Sentence Grammar
36. Grammatical Sentences
37. Clauses and Sentences
38. Nouns and Noun Phrases
39. Verbs
40. Verbs and Verb Phrases
41. Subject-Verb Agreement
42. Pronouns
43. Adjectives and Adverbs
44. Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
PART NINE—Sentence Clarity
45. Confusing Shifts
46. Parallelism
47. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
48. Sentence Fragments
49. Modifier Placement
50. Consistent and Complete Structures
PART TEN—Sentence Style
51. Concise writing
52. Coordination and Subordination
53. Sentence Variety
54. Memorable Prose
PART ELEVEN—Punctuation
55. Commas
56. Semicolons
57. End Punctuation
58. Apostrophes
59. Quotation Marks
60. Other Punctuation Marks
PART TWELVE—Mechanics
61. Capital Letters
62. Abbreviations and Numbers
63. Italics
64. Hyphens

The St. Martin's Handbook with 2016 MLA update
Eighth Edition| 2018
Andrea A. Lunsford
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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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Andrea A. Lunsford
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