Easywriter: A High School Reference / Edition 4

by Andrea A. Lunsford, Steven Fox, Paul Kei Matsuda

Overview

All writers make choices — and better choices get better results. EasyWriter: A High School Reference offers essential help with grammar, mechanics, and documentation, then goes beyond the basics with Andrea Lunsford’s trademark attention to critical thinking, argument, and language choices. This special high school edition features a hard cover to stand the test of time, plus new sections on topics crucial to high school success — all in a book that’s easy to use, easy to carry, and easy to afford.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312531140
Publisher:	Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date:	12/08/2009
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	4.80(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

LANGUAGE
29 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