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All writers make choices and better choices get better results.EasyWriterdistills Andrea Lunsford's teaching and research into the essentials that today's writers need to make good choices in any rhetorical situation. In addition to Lunsford's trademark attention to language, critical thinking, and argument,EasyWriternow reflects the results of new research into student writing and offers expanded, up-to-the-minute coverage of the writing process, research and documentation, and writing in the disciplines all in a pocket handbook that's easy to use, easy to carry, and easy to afford.

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 The Everyday Writer, Fourth 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.

WRITING 1 A Writer’s Choices 2 Exploring, Planning, and Drafting 3 Critical Thinking and Argument 4 Writing for Other Media 5 Writing in the Disciplines 6 Designing Documents SENTENCE GRAMMAR 7 Verbs 8 Subject-Verb Agreement 9 Adjectives and Adverbs 10 Modifier Placement 11 Pronouns 12 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences 13 Sentence Fragments SENTENCE STYLE 14 Consistency and Completeness 15 Coordination and Subordination 16 Conciseness 17 Parallelism 18 Shifts PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS 19 Commas 20 Semicolons 21 End Punctuation 22 Apostrophes 23 Quotation Marks 24 Other Punctuation 25 Capitalization 26 Abbreviations and Numbers 27 Italics 28 Hyphens LANGUAGE29 Writing to the World 30 Language That Builds Common Ground 31 Varieties of Language 32 Word Choice MULTILINGUAL WRITERS 33 Writing in U.S. Academic Genres 34 Sentence Structure 35 Nouns and Noun Phrases 36 Verbs and Verb Phrases 37 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases RESEARCH 38 Conducting Research 39 Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes 40 Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism 41 Writing a Research Project DOCUMENTATION 42 MLA Style 43 APA Style 44 Chicago Style 45 CSE Style

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EasyWriter : A Pocket Reference

EasyWriter : A Pocket Reference

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