Andrea A. Lunsford

EasyWriter gives friendly, reliable writing help in formats that are easy to use and easy to afford. What's more, this little book offers big ideas from Andrea Lunsford: that reading critically and writing well empower us, that language helps writers face challenges and meet opportunities, and that engaging with others and in our own learning is transformative. Inspiring and trusted advice plus powerful digital tools means the choice is Easy.

Students like little books. They want affordable course materials. They need to read and write and do research. And now they need more help than ever before listening, engaging respectfully with others, and distinguishing between facts and fiction. We’ve got the book for all that. It’s called Let’s Talk, and it’s by Andrea Lunsford.

A comprehensive handbook that shows students how to reflect on the writing skills they already have and put them to use both in traditional academic work and in multimodal projects like blog posts, websites, and presentations. Integrated advice on U.S. academic genres and language follows best practices for helping students from both international and native-speaker backgrounds improve their understanding of academic English. Offers support for all students as they move from informal, social writing to effective academic writing and influential in the public sphere.

The St. Martin's Handbook, 8th Edition, supports students as they move from informal, social writing to both effective academic writing and to writing that can change the world.

Whether you're looking for an affordable way to focus your writing classroom on rhetorical choices, or just a pocket-sized quick reference that your students can use on the go, you'll find what you need in EasyWriter.

Andrea Lunsford's research shows that students are writing more than ever -- in classrooms, workplaces, and social spaces, in local communities and around the world. The Everyday Writer, Fifth Edition, is the first tabbed handbook to help the participants in this "literacy revolution" build on the smart decisions they make as social writers -- and use their skills in their academic and professional work. With Andrea Lunsford's trademark attention to rhetorical choice and language, and with new chapters on public writing, critical reading, and understanding how and why to use documentation, The Everyday Writer gives today's students the information they need to be effective, ethical writers. New illustrations by graphic artist G.B. Tran make complicated concepts clear and inviting for students. And now LearningCurve, game-like adaptive quizzing, gives students a new way to see what they know.

The St. Martin's Pocket Guide to Research and Documentation, is small enough to fit in a pocket but big enough to provide the reliable help students need with research assignments across the disciplines. Offering advice for planning, conducting, and documenting research, this guide includes: * annotated source maps that give step-by-step guidelines for citing print and electronic materials * advice on evaluating sources and navigating wired libraries * tips for about getting started on a research project * guidelines for avoiding plagiarism and for quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing sources * helpful lists of resource materials, both print and electronic, for over twenty-five disciplines * up-to-date documentation guidelines for MLA, Chicago, APA, CSE, and AIP styles * sample student research writing in a variety of disciplines and documentation styles