EasyWriter

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ISBN: 9781319244224

by Andrea A. Lunsford

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

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Print ISBN	9781319244224
eText ISBN	9781319393144
Publisher	Bedford/St. Martin's
Publishing Year	2021
Language	English

EasyWriter is a compact reference handbook by Andrea A. Lunsford designed to guide college students through essential academic writing and research tasks. Published by Bedford/St. Martin's, this volume provides structured guidance for exploring topics, planning drafts, making intentional document design decisions, revising text, and reflecting on individual composition choices across diverse writing situations.

The text places significant emphasis on information literacy, ethical argumentation, and source management. Student writers learn how to read critically, listen analytically, and conduct academic research using diverse library and online resources. It details practical procedures for evaluating source authority, taking organized notes, and integrating external evidence into original essays while avoiding plagiarism in academic projects.

Furthermore, the handbook offers comprehensive documentation rules for four major academic formatting systems, detailing specific guidelines for MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE styles. By combining systematic research strategies with precise style manuals, this reference guide supports student writers as they execute formal research papers and written assignments throughout their college coursework.

Chapter 1: A Writer’s Opportunities
- • 1a Being open to and engaging difference
- • 1b Using social media wisely
- • 1c Positioning yourself as an academic writer
- • 1d Collaborating with others
Chapter 2: A Writer’s Choices
- • 2a Considering assignment and purpose
- • 2b Choosing a topic
- • 2c Considering audience
- • 2d Considering stance and tone
- • 2e Considering time, genre, medium, format
Chapter 3: Exploring, Planning, and Drafting
- • 3a Exploring a topic
- • 3b Developing a working thesis
- • 3c Gathering credible evidence and doing research
- • 3d Planning and drafting
- • 3e Developing paragraphs
Chapter 4: Making Design Decisions
- • 4a Considering design principles
- • 4b Choosing appropriate formats
- • 4c Choosing visuals and media
- • 4d Using visuals and media ethically
Chapter 5: Reviewing, Revising, and Editing
- • 5a Reviewing
- • 5b Revising
- • 5c Editing and proofreading
- • Top Twenty Tips for Editing Your Writing
Chapter 6: Sharing and Reflecting on Your Writing
- • 6a Sharing with audiences
- • 6b Creating a portfolio
- • 6c Reflecting on your own work
- • 6d A sample reflection
Chapter 7: Learning from Low-Stakes Writing
- • 7a The value of low-stakes writing
- • 7b Types of low-stakes assignments
Chapter 8: Reading and Listening Analytically, Critically, and Respectfully
- • 8a Reading collaboratively
- • 8b Previewing
- • 8c Annotating
- • 8d Summarizing
- • 8e Analyzing
- • 8f Student writing: Rhetorical analysis
Chapter 9: Arguing Ethically and Persuasively
- • 9a Listening (and reading) purposefully and openly
- • 9b Identifying basic appeals in an argument
- • 9c Analyzing elements of an argument
- • 9d Arguing purposefully
- • 9e Making an argument
- • 9f Organizing an argument
- • 9g Student writing: An argument essay
Chapter 10: Writing in a Variety of Disciplines and Genres
- • 10a Recognizing expectations of academic disciplines
- • 10b Understanding and using genres
- • 10c Adapting genre structures
- • 10d Choosing genres for public writing
- • 10e Student Writing: Samples in a variety of disciplines and genres
Chapter 11: Creating Presentations
- • 11a Considering task, purpose, and audience
- • 11b Writing a memorable introduction and conclusion
- • 11c Using explicit structure and signpost language
- • 11d Preparing a script for ease of presentation
- • 11e Planning visuals
- • 11f Practicing
- • 11g Delivering the presentation
- • 11h Student Writing: Excerpts from a presentation
Chapter 12: Conducting Research
- • 12a Understanding challenges to research today
- • 12b Beginning the research process
- • 12c Choosing among types of sources
- • 12d Using web and library resources
- • 12e Doing field research
Chapter 13: Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes
- • 13a Checking facts
- • 13b Reading vertically
- • 13c Reading laterally
- • 13d Reading and analyzing sources
- • 13e Synthesizing sources
- • 13f Keeping track of sources
- • 13g Working with quotations, paraphrases, and summaries
- • 13h Creating an annotated bibliography
- • 13i Student writing: Annotated bibliography entries
Chapter 14: Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
- • 14a Using sources ethically
- • 14b Integrating quotations, paraphrases, and summaries
- • 14c Integrating visuals and media
- • 14d Knowing which sources to acknowledge
- • 14e Avoiding plagiarism
Chapter 15: Writing a Research Project
- • 15a Drafting your text, including illustrations
- • 15b Reviewing and revising a research project
- • 15c Preparing a list of sources
- • 15d Editing and proofreading
- • 15e Student writing: Outline of a research project
Chapter 16: MLA Style
- • 16a Understanding the MLA citation style
- • 16b Considering the context of your sources
- • 16c Following MLA format
- • 16d Creating MLA in-text citations
- • 16e Creating an MLA list of works cited
- • 16f Student writing: A research-based argument in MLA style
Chapter 17: APA Style
- • 17a Understanding APA citation style
- • 17b Following APA format
- • 17c Creating APA in-text citations
- • 17d Creating an APA list of references
- • 17e Student writing: A Research essay in APA style
Chapter 18: Chicago Style
- • 18a Understanding Chicago citation style
- • 18b Following Chicago format
- • 18c Creating Chicago notes and bibliographic entries
- • 18d Student writing: Excerpt from a research-based history essay in Chicago style
Chapter 19: CSE Style
- • 19a Following CSE format
- • 19b Creating CSE in-text citations
- • 19c Creating a CSE list of references
- • 19d Student writing: A literature review for biology in CSE style
Chapter 20: Language and Identity
- • 20a Recognizing how the language of others can shape identity
- • 20b Using language to shape your own identity
Chapter 21: Writing across Cultures, Communities, and Identities
- • 21a Thinking about what seems “normal”
- • 21b Clarifying meaning
- • 21c Meeting audience expectations
Chapter 22: Language that Builds Common Ground
- • 22a Examining assumptions and avoiding stereotypes
- • 22b Examining assumptions about gender
- • 22c Examining assumptions about race and ethnicity
- • 22d Considering abilities and disabilities
Chapter 23: Language Varieties
- • 23a Practicing language awareness
- • 23b What is standardized English?
- • 23c Bringing in other languages
Chapter 24: Word Choice
- • 24a Using levels of formality
- • 24b Considering denotation and connotation
- • 24c Using general and specific language effectively
- • 24d Using figurative language effectively
Chapter 25: Varying Sentences
- • 25a Varying sentence length
- • 25b Varying sentence openings
Chapter 26: Consistency and Completeness
- • 26a Revising confusing sentence structure
- • 26b Matching subjects and predicates
- • 26c Making complete comparisons
Chapter 27: Coordination and Subordination
- • 27a Relating equal ideas
- • 27b Distinguishing main ideas
Chapter 28: Conciseness
- • 28a Eliminating redundant words
- • 28b Eliminating empty words
- • 28c Replacing wordy phrases
- • 28d Simplifying sentence structure
Chapter 29: Parallelism
- • 29a Making items in a series or list parallel
- • 29b Making paired ideas parallel
- • 29c Using words necessary for clarity
Chapter 30: Shifts
- • 30a Revising shifts in tense
- • 30b Revising shifts in voice
- • 30c Revising shifts in point of view
- • 30d Revising shifts between direct and indirect language
Chapter 31: Verbs and Verb Phrases
- • 31a Using regular and irregular verb forms
- • 31b Building verb phrases
- • 31c Using infinitives and gerunds
- • 31d Using lie and lay, sit and set, rise and raise
- • 31e Using verb tenses
- • 31f Using active and passive voice
- • 31g Using mood appropriately
- • 31h Using conditional sentences appropriately
Chapter 32: Nouns and Noun Phrases
- • 32a Understanding nouns and noncount nouns
- • 32b Using determiners
- • 32c Using articles
Chapter 33: Subject-Verb agreement
- • 33a Checking for words between subject and verb
- • 33b Checking agreement with compound subjects
- • 33c Making verbs agree with collective nouns
- • 33d Making verbs agree with indefinite pronouns
- • 33e Making verbs agree with who, which, and that
- • 33f Making linking verbs agree with subjects
- • 33g Making verbs agree with subjects that end in -s
- • 33h Checking for subjects that follow the verb
- • 33i Making verbs agree with titles and words used as words
- • 33j Considering forms of be in varieties of English
Chapter 34: Adjectives and Adverbs
- • 34a Using adjectives after linking verbs
- • 34b Using comparatives and superlatives
Chapter 35: Modifier Placement
- • 35a Revising misplaced modifiers
- • 35b Revising disruptive modifiers
- • 35c Revise dangling modifiers
Chapter 36: Pronouns
- • 36a Considering a pronoun’s role in the sentence
- • 36b Making pronouns agree with antecedents
- • 36c Making pronoun references to refer to clear antecedents
Chapter 37: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
- • 37a Choosing the right preposition
- • 37b Using two-word verbs idiomatically
Chapter 38: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
- • 38a Separating the clauses into two sentences
- • 38b Linking the clauses with a comma and a coordinating conjunction
- • 38c Linking the clauses with a semicolon
- • 38d Rewriting the two clauses as one independent clause
- • 38e Rewriting one independence clause as a dependent clause
- • 38f Linking the two clauses with a dash
Chapter 39: Sentence Fragments
- • 39a Revising phrase fragments
- • 39b Revising compound-predicate fragments
- • 39 c Revising clause fragments
Chapter 40: Commas
- • 40a Setting off introductory elements
- • 40b Separating clauses in compound sentences
- • 40c Setting off nonrestrictive elements
- • 40d Separating items in a series
- • 40e Setting off parenthetical and transitional expressions
- • 40f Setting off contrasting elements, interjections, direct address, and tag questions
- • 40g Setting off parts of dates and addresses
- • 40h Setting off quotations
- • 40i Avoiding unnecessary commas
Chapter 41: Semicolons
- • 41a Linking independent clauses
- • 41b Separating items in a series containing other punctuation
- • 41c Avoiding misused semicolons
Chapter 42: End punctuation
- • 42a Using periods
- • 42b Using question marks
- • 42c Using exclamation points
- • 42d Using end punctuation in informal writing
Chapter 43: Apostrophes
- • 43a Signaling possessive case
- • 43b Signaling contractions
- • 43c Understanding apostrophes and plural forms
Chapter 44: Quotation Marks
- • 44a Signaling direct quotation
- • 44b Identifying titles of short works and definitions
- • 44c Using quotation marks with other punctuation
- • 44d Avoiding misused quotation marks
Chapter 45: Other Punctuation
- • 45a Using parentheses
- • 45b Using brackets
- • 45c Using dashes
- • 45d Using colons
- • 45e Using slashes
- • 45f Using ellipses
Chapter 46: Capital Letters
- • 46a Capitalizing the first word of a sentence
- • 46b Capitalizing proper nouns and proper adjectives
- • 46c Capitalizing titles before proper names
- • 46d Capitalizing titles of works
- • 46e Revising unnecessary capitalization
Chapter 47: Abbreviations and Numbers
- • 47a Using abbreviations
- • 47b Using numbers
Chapter 48: Italics and Hyphenation
- • 48a Italicizing titles
- • 48b Italicizing words, letter, and numbers used as terms
- • 48c Italicizing non-English words
- • 48d Using italics for emphasis
- • 48e Using hyphens with compound words
- • 48f Using hyphens with prefixes and suffixes
- • 48g Avoiding unnecessary hyphens