The Everyday Writer with 2009 MLA Update,9780312594572

The Everyday Writer with 2009 MLA Update

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780312594572
ISBN10: 0312594577
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-05-18
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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This book helped me so much. It has everything you need to know about writing in MLA format, which is usually a preference for most college professors. I bought this book used. Price was good. I still use this book every time I need to write a paper. It is easy to find the info you are looking for and does a good job explaining the rules and giving examples. Good book!


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Summary

Students write every day and everywhere for school, for work, and for fun. And nobody else in the field of composition understands the real world of student writing better than Andrea A. Lunsford. Her trademark attention to rhetorical choice, language and style, and critical thinking and argument based on years of experience as a researcher and classroom teacher makeThe Everyday Writerthe tabbed handbook that can talk students through every writing situation. But wait there's more! New research into student writing now informs every page of the new edition...and with expanded, more visual coverage of the writing process, research and documentation, and writing in the disciplines, today'sEveryday Writerprepares students more than ever for everyday writing challenges from managing a research project to writing on a Facebook wall.The Everyday Writerwith Exercisesis now available, too.

Author Biography

ANDREA A. LUNSFORD is professor of English at Stanford University and also teaches at the Bread Loaf School of English. A past chair of CCCC, she has won the major publication awards in both the CCCC and MLA. For Bedford/St. Martin’s she is also the author of The St. Martin's Handbook, Sixth Edition, and EasyWriter, Third Edition; The Presence of Others, Fifth Edition, and Everything's an Argument, Fourth Edition, with John Ruszkiewicz; and Everything's an Argument (with Readings), Fourth Edition, with John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters.

Table of Contents

About College Writing
1. The Top Twenty: A Quick Guide to Troubleshooting Your Writing
2. Expectations for College Writing
3. Oral and Multimedia Assignments
4. Design for College Writing

The Writing Process
5. Writing Situations
6. Exploring Ideas
7. Planning and Drafting
8. Developing Paragraphs
9. Reviewing and Revising
10. Editing and Reflecting

Critical Thinking and Argument
11. Critical Reading
12. Analyzing Arguments
13. Constructing Arguments

Research
14. Preparing for a Research Project
15. Doing Research
16. Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes
17. Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
18. Writing a Research Project
 
Language
19. Writing to the World
20. Language That Builds Common Ground
21. Language Variety
22. Word Choice and Spelling
23. Glossary of Usage

Sentence Style
24. Coordination, Subordination, and Emphasis
25. Consistency and Completeness
26. Parallelism
27. Shifts
28. Conciseness
29. Sentence Variety

Sentence Grammar
30. Basic Grammar
31. Verbs
32. Subject-Verb Agreement
33. Pronouns
34. Adjectives and Adverbs
35. Modifier Placement
36. Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
37. Sentence Fragments

Punctuation and Mechanics
38. Commas
39. Semicolons
40. End Punctuation
41. Apostrophes
42. Quotation Marks
43. Other Punctuation
44. Capital Letters
45. Abbreviations and Numbers
46. Italics
47. Hyphens

MLA Documentation
48. MLA Style for In-Text Citations
49. Explanatory and Bibliographic Notes
50. List of Works Cited
51. Student Essay, MLA style

APA, Chicago, and CSE Documentation
52. APA Style
53. Chicago Style
54. CSE Style

For Multilingual Writers
55. Writing in U.S. Academic Genres
56. Clauses and Sentences
57. Nouns and Noun Phrases
58. Verbs and Verb Phrases
59. Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

Writing in the Disciplines
60. Academic Work in Any Discipline
61. Writing for the Humanities
62. Writing for the Social Sciences
63. Writing for the Natural and Applied Sciences
64. Writing for Business

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