Table of Contents

PART ONE—The Art and Craft of Writing.- Expectations for College Writing.- Rhetorical Situations.- Exploring, Planning, and Drafting.- Reviewing, Revising, and Editing .- Developing Paragraphs.- Working with Others .- PART TWO—Critical Thinking and Argument.- Reading Critically.- Analyzing Arguments.- Constructing Arguments .- PART THREE—Doing Research and Using Sources.- Preparing for a Research Project.- Conducting Research.- Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes.- Integrating Sources into Your Writing.- Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism.- Writing a Research Project.- PART FOUR—Designing and Performing Writing .- Design for Writing .- Oral and Multimedia Presentations .- Communicating in Other Media.- PART FIVE—Academic and Professional Writing.- Academic Work in Any Discipline.- Writing for the Social Sciences.- Writing for the Natural and Applied Sciences.- Writing for Business.- Essay Examinations.- PortfoliosWriting to Make Something Happen in the World .- PART SIX—Effective Language .- Writing to the World .- Language That Builds Common Ground.- Language Variety.- Word Choice.- Dictionaries, Vocabulary, and Spelling.- PART SEVEN—Documenting Sources.- MLA Style.- APA Style.- Chicago Style.- CSE Style .- PART EIGHT—Sentence Grammar .- Grammatical Sentences.- Clauses and Sentences.- Nouns and Noun Phrases .- Verbs.- Verbs and Verb Phrases .- Subject-Verb Agreement.- Pronouns.- Adjectives and Adverbs.- Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases .- PART NINE—Sentence Clarity.- Confusing Shifts.- Parallelism.- Comma Splices and Fused Sentences.- Sentence Fragments.- Modifier Placement.- Consistent and Complete Structures.- PART TEN—Sentence Style.- Concise writing.- Coordination and Subordination.- Sentence Variety.- Memorable Prose.- PART ELEVEN—Punctuation.- Commas.- Semicolons.- End Punctuation.- Apostrophes.- Quotation Marks.- Other Punctuation Marks.- PART TWELVE—Mechanics.- Capital Letters.- Abbreviations and Numbers.- Italics.- Hyphens.

About the Author

Andrea 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, Lunsford was Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University (1986-2000). She has also been Associate Professor and Director of Writing at the University of British Columbia (1977-86). Currently a member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, Professor Lunsford earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Florida and completed her Ph.D. in English at The Ohio State University (1977).

Professor Lunsford's scholarly interests include contemporary rhetorical theory, women and the history of rhetoric, collaboration and collaborative writing, current cultures of writing, intellectual property and composing, style, and technologies of writing. She has written or co-authored many books, including Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse; Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing; and Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the History of Rhetoric, as well as numerous chapters and articles. For Bedford/St. Martin's, she is the author of The St. Martin's Handbook, The Everyday Writer, EasyWriter, and Writing in Action; the co-author (with John Ruszkiewicz) of Everything's an Argument and (with John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters) of Everything's an Argument with Readings; and the co-author (with Lisa Ede) of Writing Together: Collaboration in Theory and Practice.

Professor Lunsford has conducted workshops on writing and program reviews at dozens of North American universities, served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, as Chair of the Modern Language Association Division on Writing, and as a member of the MLA Executive Council.