| Edition |
Eighth edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 444 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
When your students need reliable, easy-to-find writing advice for college and beyond, EasyWriter gives them what they need in a format that's easy to afford. Andrea Lunsford meets students where they are with friendly advice, research-based tips for solving the Top Twenty writing problems, and an emphasis on making effective rhetorical choices. The seventh edition puts even more emphasis on empowering students to become critical thinkers and ethical communicators with new advice about fact checking and evaluating sources and more advice about choosing language that builds common ground. In addition, the seventh edition offers more support for writing in a variety of disciplines and genres and more models of student writing to help students make effective choices in any context. EasyWriter can be packaged at a significant discount with LaunchPad Solo for Lunsford Handbooks, which includes dozens of additional writing models as well as exercises, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, videos, and podcasts. |
| Contents |
A Writer's Opportunities -- A Writer's Choices -- Exploring, Planning, and Drafting -- Making Design Decisions -- Reviewing, Revising, and Editing -- Sharing and Reflecting on Your Writing -- Learning from Low-Stakes Writing -- Reading and Listening Analytically, Critically, and Respectfully -- Arguing Ethically and Persuasively -- Writing in a Variety of Disciplines and Genres -- Creating Presentations -- Conducting Research -- Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes -- Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism -- Writing a Research Project -- MLA Style -- APA Style -- Chicago Style -- CSE Style -- Language and Identity -- Writing across Cultures, Communities, and Identities -- Language that Builds Common Ground -- Language Varieties -- Word Choice -- Varying Sentences -- Consistency and Completeness -- Coordination and Subordination -- Conciseness -- Parallelism -- Shifts -- Verbs and Verb Phrases -- Nouns and Noun Phrases -- Subject-Verb agreement -- Adjectives and Adverbs -- Modifier Placement -- Pronouns -- Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases -- Comma Splices and Fused Sentences -- Sentence Fragments -- Commas -- Semicolons -- End punctuation -- Apostrophes -- Quotation Marks -- Other Punctuation -- Capital Letters -- Abbreviations and Numbers -- Italics and Hyphenation. |
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
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Bibliographical citations -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Bibliographical citations. |
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Handbooks and manuals.
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English language -- Grammar -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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English language -- Grammar -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
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Academic writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Academic writing. |
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Information services -- Directories.
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Information services -- Directories. |
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English language -- Grammar. |
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English language -- Rhetoric. |
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Information services. |
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Directories.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Directories.
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| Added Author |
Matsuda, Paul Kei, author.
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Tardy, Christine M., author.
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| Added Title |
Easy writer |
| ISBN |
9781319393342 |
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1319393349 |
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