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The St. Martin's Handbook with 2021 MLA Update

Ninth Edition| ©2021 Andrea A. Lunsford

The ebook has been updated to give your students the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

Available as an e-book, The St. Martin’s Handbook, the most rhetorically grounded

The ebook has been updated to give your students the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

Available as an e-book, The St. Martin’s Handbook, the most rhetorically grounded comprehensive handbook for composition, continues to do what it has always done: Present Andrea Lunsford’s substantial and timely research with student writers for student writers. The Ninth Edition reflects a nationwide survey of students and teachers related to how young people interact with others from different language and cultural backgrounds and with people with whom they disagree. New material on college expectations helps students think critically about barriers to and benefits of open and respectful dialogue and offers strategies for communicating outside of one’s comfort zone. Attention to gender and pronouns and to language varieties and identities supports students as they learn to write to include rather than to exclude. And throughout the Ninth Edition, which assumes students are writing traditional and multimodal projects in a mobile world, Andrea Lunsford asks students to see themselves as communicators in a global world.

With new student writing, stronger coverage of argument, new material on defensive reading and fact checking, more visual help with field research, the most up-to-date citation models, and a range of practice activities, The St. Martin’s Handbook helps a wide variety of college writers succeed.

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A handbook for mobile writers in a global world

The ebook has been updated to give your students the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

Available as an e-book, The St. Martin’s Handbook, the most rhetorically grounded comprehensive handbook for composition, continues to do what it has always done: Present Andrea Lunsford’s substantial and timely research with student writers for student writers. The Ninth Edition reflects a nationwide survey of students and teachers related to how young people interact with others from different language and cultural backgrounds and with people with whom they disagree. New material on college expectations helps students think critically about barriers to and benefits of open and respectful dialogue and offers strategies for communicating outside of one’s comfort zone. Attention to gender and pronouns and to language varieties and identities supports students as they learn to write to include rather than to exclude. And throughout the Ninth Edition, which assumes students are writing traditional and multimodal projects in a mobile world, Andrea Lunsford asks students to see themselves as communicators in a global world.

With new student writing, stronger coverage of argument, new material on defensive reading and fact checking, more visual help with field research, the most up-to-date citation models, and a range of practice activities, The St. Martin’s Handbook helps a wide variety of college writers succeed.

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Rhetorical awareness as a writer’s foundation  The St. Martin’s Handbook, although its roots are in the study of error, is built on the idea that effective texts in every genre and medium follow conventions that depend—always—on purpose, audience, situation, and discipline. Strengthening writers’ skills starts with creating an awareness of the choices they have and encouraging writers to reflect on the choices they make.


Comprehensive coverage of critical reading, critical thinking, research, and argument  As always, The St. Martin’s Handbook provides students with strategies and examples that help them complete the most common types of assignments in the composition sequence.


Plenty of practice with sentence, language, and writing skills  A flexible resource that supports students before, during, and after class, the handbook includes 120 exercises and activities designed to offer skill-building, reinforcement, and low-stakes writing opportunities. The Top Twenty focuses students on common errors.


Help for writing in the disciplines and succeeding in college  The Handbook includes chapters on writing in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and in professional situations. It also covers essay exams, portfolios, presentations, and multimodal composition strategies useful in any college course.


Integrated advice about U.S. academic English  Information for multilingual writers is integrated throughout the book and accessible to students from all language, cultural, and educational backgrounds.

New to This Edition

The ebook has been updated to give your students the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).

An emphasis on being an open-minded learner  Based on new research with college writers and teachers of writing, a substantially revised “Expectations for College Writing” chapter provides a framework for developing the habits of open-minded readers, writers, listeners, and speakers. A new approach invites students to expect and engage difference and provides strategies for communicating respectfully with others and for stepping outside their social and ideological comfort zones. The ninth edition, featuring the voices of real students from across the country, helps writers think critically about the barriers to and benefits of openness—and better equips them for communicating in a global world.

New strategies for defensive reading, critical thinking, and fact checking  Writing with sources is a foundational skill for college, and too many students arrive with little experience in questioning the sources they read online and approaching them with skepticism. Revised advice for critical reading and evaluating and new tips for fact checking help students respond to the information and misinformation in news sources and in social media—and help them balance open-mindedness and skepticism as they evaluate sources.

A broader presentation of language use  Grounded in the argument that language is power, The St. Martin’s Handbook coaches students in both following and experimenting with conventions. A new chapter on language and identity helps students think more openly and carefully about language we use to present ourselves and language used to label us and others. A new reading by Andrea Lunsford explores the theme of “narrative justice,” the idea of giving people the opportunity to use their own language to control the narrative—the story—of their own experience. A revised chapter on language varieties fosters a new openness to translingual composition—with excerpts from student writing. Finally, attention to gender preference and pronoun use raises awareness about writing and speaking to include rather than exclude.

New examples of student writing that emphasize narrative elements, combine languages, and respond to common assignments  Some students come to college thinking of “academic writing” as boring and formulaic. New examples of student writing in the ninth edition defy that description, reimagining the role of narrative in argumentative and analytical writing and validating writing that brings in other languages for rhetorical effect.

Reorganized contents for academic writers  The ninth edition groups argument, critical thinking, research, and documentation together so that the instruction at the heart of the composition course is centralized in the handbook. In addition, we’ve grouped the language and style chapters together and have made the Top Twenty easier to find.
More help with field research  One way students can control the sources and data they use in their writing is to collect their own information with field research techniques such as polling, interviewing, and observing. The ninth edition includes new sample questions presented in visual format.


Up-to-date documentation help in four styles The St. Martin’s Handbook, offering guidance for writing in MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles, serves as a useful and valuable companion throughout college and across the disciplines. The ninth edition includes the most recent Modern Language Association (2016), American Psychological Association (2020), University of Chicago (2017), and Council of Science Editors (2014) guidelines.

A new resource for developing college writers in corequisite composition  A new supplemental workbook for students in paired or corequisite composition sections provides a wide range of activities to help students practice the skills and habits they need to be successful academic writers. A Student’s Companion to Lunsford Handbooks is designed to help underprepared students improve their reading and writing performance—with college success material on time management and etiquette, substantial coverage of reading strategies, graphic organizers for visual learners, and more than 60 exercises on writing, research, and grammar.

“I'm impressed with how much opportunity the revised material on college expectations might create for class discussion and write-to-learn activities. I really can't remember seeing anything written for students about academic discourse that was quite so socially and politically aware.”

--Christian Tatu, Lafayette College

 

“We've just been designated a Hispanic-Serving Institution, so the new chapters on language identities and varieties will help all of our students understand language in more nuanced ways.” 

--Monica Norris, Texas Tech University

 

“I stopped using The St. Martin’s Handbook for a year or so. Now I'm back because I've been frustrated with other handbooks and writing guides. They are often too gimmicky. I find the St. Martin’s a much more versatile, reliable resource for students writing in my course and  in other courses.”

--Elliott Gruner, Plymouth State University

 

“The revision of the handbook in light of current research is something that The St. Martin’s Handbook has always done well, but this latest edition does it in an engaging and accessible way. The Handbook continues to be a standout in that regard, and I congratulate Dr. Lunsford for her unflagging commitment to helping students and teachers face the challenges posed by college-level writing demands.” 

--Elias Dominguez Barajas, Florida State University

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Ninth Edition| 2021

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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
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Ninth Edition| 2021

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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, she was Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University (1986-2000) and, before that, Associate Professor and Director of Writing at the University of British Columbia (1977-86) and Associate Professor of English at Hillsborough Community College. A frequent member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, Andrea 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). She holds honorary degrees from Middlebury College and The University of Ôrebro.

Andrea's scholarly interests include the contributions of women and people of color to rhetorical history, theory, and practice; collaboration and collaborative writing, comics/graphic narratives; translanguaging and 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, and EasyWriter; 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. She is also a regular contributor to the Bits teaching blog on Bedford/St. Martin’s English Community site.

Andrea has given presentations and workshops on the changing nature and scope of writing and critical language awareness at scores 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. In her spare time, she serves on the Board of La Casa Roja’s Next Generation Leadership Network, as Chair of the Kronos Quartet Performing Arts Association--and works diligently if not particularly well in her communal organic garden.

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Ninth Edition| 2021

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