
Andrea Lunsford meets students where they are with friendly, approachable advice, and the handbook’s easy-to-use design ensures her expert advice-including her signature Top Twenty editing guide- is always at students’ fingertips. When your students need reliable, easy-to-find writing advice for college and beyond, EasyWriter with Exercises gives them what they need in a format that's easy to afford.Friendly, trustworthy, and easy. 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.Īndrea Lunsford meets students where there are with friendly advice, research-based tips for solving the Top Twenty writing problems, and an emphasis on making effective rhetorical choices. 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.ĮasyWriter with Exercises 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.Andrea Lunsford’s advice in a pocket handbook. Andrea’s friendly, forward-thinking rhetorical approach starts where students are and shows them the moves they need to master to succeed as effective writers. Her research on what, how, and why students write-from the Top Twenty to the Literacy Revolution-provides a solid foundation for EasyWriter’s advice.

Help with all the genres today’s students need to master. As college writing (and workplace writing) has expanded to embrace new technologies and genres, Andrea Lunsford is leading the way in giving attention to today’s multimodal, participatory genres, such as blogs and web comics, in addition to traditional academic genres such as researched argument. In EasyWriter and its digital resources, you’ll find models and advice on more genres of writing than in any other pocket handbook.Įxpert answers to students’ most common questions. EasyWriter provides information that students can trust-and that they can find without having to wade through mountains of conflicting information.Ī focus on making choices, not on following rules. Andrea Lunsford recognizes that there is no single standard for correctness in writing instead, effective texts follow conventions that depend on context. Up-to-date advice on research and documentation. EasyWriter provides information on using both library and Internet sources effectively, tips for avoiding plagiarism, and guidelines for MLA-, APA-, Chicago-, and CSE-style documentation.

Help with the “why” as well as the “how” of documentation helps students understand the purpose and uses of different documentation styles.ġ2 Writing to Make Something Happen in the Worldġ5 Integrating Sources and Avoiding PlagiarismĢ7 Prepositions and Prepositional PhrasesĪndrea 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. 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.Īndrea'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.
